apfs

HI everyone, I have an APFS file (about 120GB) and i dont know how to open or read that file. It is very important for me because i have like 35-40GB of photos inside. That APFS file was from Mojave. Now I keep this file in a pendrive but no idea how to open or read. I just need to extract my...

Hi, I have a MacBook Pro 2015 that was running Mojave, and am having a boot problem. When I turn the computer on, I get the Mac logo, the progress bar makes it a third of the way across the screen, and then shuts off. I've tried a few things to fix this so far, but nothing's working so far. I...

I am moving from Sierra to a new Mac with Monterey and this is my first contact with APFS. Currently, I am setting up an 18TB Western Digital HDD for TimeMachine and an 12TB WD HDD for clone backups (will be using either SupderDuper! or CarbonCopyCloner). Which file system should I choose...

Hi everyone. I’m really new to Macs so please forgive my naivety. I recently bought a 2017 MacBook Air i5 (as I was getting fed up with windows), which came running High Sierra. I wanted it to run Monterey so I downloaded the update but got the message that the drive wasn’t formatted APFS. So…I...

Hi all I am on MacOS Monterey. I am trying to delete one particular date from the Time Machine on my SSD Storage. How exactly do I do this? I have read some people say I cannot do it if I am on APFS, only can do it on HFS. How do I know which one mine is? And if I am indeed on APFS, surely...

Hi, I have the issue getting a APFS sparsebundle volume (copied to smb server) work with Time Machine by attaching the volume via "hdiutil attach /path/to/sparsebundle/" (for automated attach on startup). Time Machine starts up (prepare backup) but stops without copying any file. Instead, if I...

TLDR: I can no longer trust Time Machine and need a recommendation for a replacement that does the exact same thing; scheduled incremental backups of multiple volumes that keep as many older daily, weekly and monthly versions as the volume can hold, with automatic pruning, simple browsing of...

The log seems to be generated about 15 minutes after I plug in my phone to charge, and has been consistently happening since i've updated. Just wanted to see if this was only me or if this is just something that is occurring now due to an update. You can find them under privacy> analytics data...

Hi, I have purchased a new 2021 14 inch Macbook Pro. My old Macbook is the early 2016 12 inch Macbook on Mojave 10.14.3. The file system is Mac Os Extended (Journaled). You're meant to be able to, but I have never been able to update this to the new APFS as the option is greyed out. If I restore...

I bought two of the SanDisk 4TB Extreme PRO Portable SSD drives (that are rated at up to 2000 MB/s) and tried to format them using Disk Utility in the latest MacBook Pro with the M1 Max chip running OS Monterey 12.0.1. They both would not format. I worked with Apple tech support and we...

Hi. I have a Mac mini 2012 with 2 similar SSD’s inside. Under Catalina I used Rafal Lesniaks method to make it boot from RAID which worked great and had 1GB/s I/O speeds as a consequence. Apparently Big Sur broke this option. At least I couldn’t make it work and no one replied to my requests...

so I was thinking about downloading a fun game i play on another device, but steam informed me on the fact that my mac won't be able to run 32-bit games. big shame, so i searched the internet for a way to still be able to play it, and read that i should be able to make a APFS volume with Mojave...

greetings people. i have a late 2012 imac, and just did a clean install for high sierra on an external SSD. i formatted it as APFS (think it's recommended for SSDs) and installed OS. now when looking at disk utility, and select 'show all devices', the above is the internal HHD, currently not...

"This Disk is Locked" Reinstalling macOS I have a 2017 iMac 27" 5K with a 1TB Fusion Drive. I have always used an external SSD for the boot drive. Now I am selling it, I am trying to install macOS on the Fusion Drive. When I boot into Recovery and try to install macOS I'm asked what drive I...

I need to migrate from a 2012 Mac Mini to a 2018 Mini. The OS on the 2012 is High Sierra. I need to move to Mojave on the new Mini and, because of some 32-bit legacy software, need to remain in Mojave. Also that legacy app won't write to an APFS formatted HD, so ideally want to wind up with...

I just confirmed that networked TimeMachine backups use APFS in the same way as they would work on a local APFS disk. APFS TimeMachine protocol has been completely reworked to use snapshots instead of hard links - faster and much more reliable. TimeCapsule also works with this, since networked...

I bought a brand new Samsung T7 SSD, and I used macOS's Disk Utility to format (erase) it in APFS(Encrypted), scheme: GUID Partition Map. Before erasing (brand new), "Used" space was 108,5 MB. After first erasing as APFS(Encrypted, scheme: GUID Partition Map), "Used" space was just 20 kb. Then I...

My music library (3TB) lives on a brand new G Drive external hard drive. When I delete a song in Music, I get this popup. I never receive a popup asking if I want to keep the file on my computer. In fact, the strangest thing happens: The song disappears from my external drive but is not visible...

In my 5,1 mac pro, I have a Sonnet M.2 4x4 PCIe card with two 2TB nVME SSDs configured as a JBOD concatenated set that I use for storing VST audio libraries. I started running out of space so I just added a new 2TB drive. After rebooting, OSX (Mojave) ask me to initialize the drive and I used...

I have a late 2012 iMac. The context of my question is - had high Sierra until last week, erased HD last week and installed Catalina. Decided to downgrade to Mojave. Erased HD again, but I think that it was formatted as type APFS (not aware that Catalina creates a 2nd partition and that there...