apfs

Morning everyone. I could use some assistance with USB drives, formatting them and their permissions on MacOS Ventura please. When inserting a brand new USB thumb drive into my Macbook Air M1 using Ventura 13.6.3 it automatically formats to MS Dos Fat32 and provides only custom access with no...

I just bought a 2TB SSD to move both mine and my partner's Photos libraries to. I will choose the 'Download Originals' option within both libraries, as I eventually want to stop using iCloud to store our photos and move to either Carbon Copy Cloner or Time Machine to back up the originals. Each...

Situation: variety of intel-era iMacs currently running mucho paid-for 32bit production software at blazing speeds (i.e., Mojave from HFS+ partitions with MRT, Spotlight, notifications, and other annoying bits disabled). For obvious reasons, we cannot have these machines "upgrading"...

I am wondering, whether I need to set TRIM manually on Macs I have upgraded from having hard drives to SSDs? I know that at least several years ago, this was not automatically turned on. With the later APFS-based version of macOS, however, will TRIM be enabled on SSDs automatically?

Hi guys, as per title. Am asking because coincidentally my "U" key is spoilt and I can't input the terminal command to skip APFS. So am stuck at the installation page. Was wondering if there was some way to do it without Terminal? 😅

I've put the internal drives from my old 2010 Mac Pro into a Sabrent Docking Station enclosure to connect them to my new Mac Studio. 2 of them are HDDs and 2 are SSDs. Would you convert the SSDs to APFS? And is there any risk involved in that conversion? Of course, I'd make a backup first. But...

So, my external APFS drive corrupted. It contains my Photos library, all music and lots of other stuff. I do have a 3 weeks old TM backup of it. Checked the S.M.A.R.T and all is well in physical side. Disk Utility's First Aid can't find any problems when checking the disk. If there's a way to...

I do a bit of videography. The raw files are 100G and then I make an Apple Pro Res intermediate file which are 500G and this is just for 6 minute videos. I create the files and, of course, they get put into a snapshot which implies that when I delete the files, I don't get the space back...

So, my late 2011 MBP A1278 has 10.6.8 on one physical SSD and 10.13.6 on a second physical SSD (this second SSD has macOS on an APFS container). [I also have a late 2013 iMac running 10.13.6 on its OEM spinner, and that’s on an HFS+ partition (because it’s still a spinner).] When connecting...

Hello all, I hope that this is the right forum section I am looking at a backup solution and most of my research concludes that one of the best options is Carbon Cope Cloner, a software by bombich. As they state on their website, the app offers "Snapshots - Bring back files that you thought...

I'm currently running a late 2013 Mac Pro that I've been holding back on upgrading. My 1TB Apple SSD is split into two HFS+ partitions, one Yosemite and one High Sierra. I'd like to reformat the High Sierra partition as APFS and install Monterey on it, while keeping the Yosemite partition intact...

I'd like to use a new 5TB USB3 external hard drive on my 2023 Mac Mini M2, running OS Ventura 13.3.1, as a shared Time Machine backup destination. I got a few slightly older macs (Mac OS 12.x) on my wifi network that I'd like to back up to this volume by mapping it to these older macs as a SMB...

I recently bought a 1TB portable SSD, fully erased it and partitioned it with GUID Partition Map using macOS' Disk Utility, then added an APFS (Encrypted) volume for storing data. I was curious about whether my M2 iPad Pro can access data on that encrypted disk so I plugged it on my iPad and I...

I have Bootcamp installed on my iMac 2019. And i have a APFS formatted 1TB external HDD. I was checking my old USB sticks from Windows Disk Manager. It asked to Start Service something like that. I thought it is asking for USB stick. It was asking for my external 1TB. Clicked it without knowing...

Ever since I "upgraded" to Monterey from Big Sur, my APFS formatted external SSDs take forever to mount. The same drives mounted instantly on Big Sur. The issue exists on both my Intel and M1 based machines running macOS 12.6.3. The issue specifically affects APFS encrypted disks as my...

I will try this very soon. I'd like to hear, if anybody else has tried, what are the details and caveats? And how well it has worked for you? Any statistical speed info? Does Monterey and Ventura have same version of diskutil? How to check?

I am currently working on an iMac(iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017). The computer won't start up due to corruption in the storage confirmed by diagnostic testing. It will however boot into recovery and diagnostic mode. The customer wants me to try to pull any information I can from the hard drive...

Hey everybody after many years resisting, today I wanted to give in and update from OS X mojave to big spur. However even though I would instal on the same disk as Mojave is on, it says not formatted to APFS How is that possible that the one operating system is working for years and now a new...

Cant find anything when searching the forums, maybe I am searching for the wrong thing. Two months ago I installed High Sierra over my Sierra on an old Mac Pro. Then one month ago, my computer started glitching, first it stopped connecting to the internet. And when all else failed, I rebooted...

Anyone able to share changes/updates to APFS that have landed with Ventura (macOS 13)? I'm particularly interested to see if the compression landscape has changed (see: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/360124/13220).