apfs

It's a pretty common issue to have slow boot times now with external ssds connected with USB 3 or USB-C, but does this problem still exist with TB3 NVMe external drives (such as a Samsung X5)?

I formatted an SSD destined to become my new High Sierra boot disk as APFS, not realizing that HFS would have been fine. Is there any way I can re-format this drive to HFS+? They ought to issue a warning before formatting a drive as APFS, to the effect that Disk Util can re-format HFS as APFS...

I have a 240GB boot drive on my CMP 5,1 running High Sierra which is about 90% filled and which I want to replace with a 500GB external SSD. Can I create an APFS disk image on a hard drive, clone the old boot drive to the disk image and then clone the disk image to the 500GB SSD?

Main Topic: Upon opening disk utility I noticed my internal hard drive (HDD not SSD)was seen as APFS formatted? Not sure if it has anything to do with my hard drive's poor performance but it really feels like the drive is on the verge of death and I don't know if I should just reformat the...

Since installing 10.14.2, I can no longer format volumes to APFS: Disk Utility fails to umount the volume. Even after stopping each and every thinkable process, it hangs in the umount phase. Quickly trying on my 10.14.1 MacBook was successful. Bug? Waiting for 10.14.3 etc. etc. .......... ;JOOP!

Hello! I am going to install MacOS on an External SSD and I need some advice. Should I install it normally with APFS? OR Try to install it with HFS? The reason why I am debating over this is because I have heard of APFS having issues like data loss, performance issues, or the fact that it's...

It seems like these are great instructions for setting up dual boot with Mojave and High Sierra, except there is a "does not compute" portion in the process. First it says: "If you are running High Sierra on an SSD or have already installed Mojave this process is much easier because your Mac...

So I recently purchased a Synology DS517 to expand our DS1817+. I did everything properly on the Synology side and have it showing the increased space of ~90 TB up from the old ~50 TB. The problem now lies on the Mac OS side of things because it's only showing the old 50 TB size. Here's a...

hello I have just upgraded my parents 2014 Mac Mini from Sierra to Mojave. This installation is running from external SSD. The install completed however after booting up again the computer does not boot to SSD. If I boot to old internal drive it cannot see the SSD partition and disk utility...

How is the boot? Still slow?

I am about to upgrade from Sierra to Mohave (I skipped High Sierra because I have a Fusion drive) and was wondering if anyone has had any problems with Mohave and their Time Machine backup? I want to make a 2nd backup of my hard drive before I upgrade, but money is tight at the moment and...

I’m mulling over whether to upgrade from Sierra to Mojave and have read the various opinions of people on here. There are a couple of things which I’m uncertain on – any advice/clarification would be most welcome: 1 - As I’m currently on Sierra (not High Sierra), I assume my file system is...

I have a SSD drive previously formatted as APFS in a High Sierra machine. I needed to move some files off my MBP which is running Sierra, so took the SSD drive, put it into an external enclosure, and reformatted it as HFS under the Sierra machine. There didn't seem to have any issues as I was...

Hi everyone! First of all, I am Spanish, and I'll do everything possible to write as best I can in English. I have an iMac: (21.5 inches, late 2012), 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7, 16Gb Ram DDR3 and GeForce GT650M 512Mb, SSD 120Gb and HDD 1TB. I explain a little everything I did: - I undid the fusion...

Next-Loader can boot HS from an APFS drive ?

Hi, I'm new to this forum so I hope this post is okay. I just upgraded my mid 2014 Macbook Pro's SSD to a 240gb OWC Aura Pro X. All fine so far, now I need to format the drive. I have booted my mac holding down cmd opt R and have chosen option 4, disk utility. My question is: which disk do I...

Can You Install Mojave on a partition and have only APFS on that partition and keep the other one in HFS+? Can be done on an external thunderbolt Lacie disk?

What's up, ya'll? :cool: I have a 2017 iMac with a fusion drive. I'm currently still running Sierra on it, because apparently, High Sierra's APFS doesn't support fusion drives. I read that Mojave (10.14) introduces APFS support for fusion drives. Thing is, all I've read about this has been...

`MBP late 2011 13` running `10.13.2` on a `Samsung Evo 850 250GB` Everything was fine for months but few days ago something horrible occurred. I'm so shocked and urgently need your help. Finder wasn't responding and I had to restart it by force. But it didn't boot again and just showed a black...

Well, despite my better judgement I'm considering the i9 MBP. The reports I'm seeing from Logic users are a lot more significant than I expected... Anyway, I've been on 10.12 for a few years now and haven't gone near 10.13. After some reading, it would seem that there's some rationale behind...