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  1. adib

    macOS Sonoma on Apple Silicon can't recognize encrypted HFS+ drives

    As per title. I have an external USB 3.0 hard drive (the rotating variant) formatted with HFS+ and encrypted via Core Storage. Plugging the drive into my M1 Mac Mini running Sonoma (14.0) could not mount the encrypted HFS+ partition. Disk Utility shows the partition as "unformatted."...
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    • Forum: macOS Sonoma (14)
  2. pika1126

    Issues With Erasing Volume and Getting High Sierra Installed after SDD Upgrade on a Late 2011 MacBook Pro

    Hi guys, I'm new here. I have a late 2011 MacBook Pro 13-inch. The original HDD on this system started failing, so I replaced it with an SDD Samsung 860 EVO of 500BG. I also updated the RAM. After replacing the original hard drive with a solid state drive, my MacBook Pro ran extremely slow. Just...
  3. grahamperrin

    FileVault 2 reportedly on after completely turned off

    Cosmetic bug in 17A264c. With the FileVault page of the Security & Privacy pane of System Preferences open during during reversion (converting (backward)) from Core Storage, after reversion completed, the pane stated: Workaround Unlock the pane. Environment MacBookPro8,2 /dev/disk1 on USB...
  4. grahamperrin

    HFS-to-APFS dry run succeeded, actual conversion failed, error -69853, boot file not written

    Core Storage encrypted startup volume, upgraded to 17A264c from a pre-release build of 10.12.6. External hard disk drive, limited to USB 2.0 with a MacBookPro8,2. After the upgrade I used Recovery OS Disk Utility to unlock the encrypted volume, then Terminal to perform a dry run of conversion...
  5. CoastalOR

    Revert Core Storage?

    System: 2015 MBP, macOS 10.12.3, Filevault 2 disabled I am trying to decide if I should revert core storage. I do not understand why Apple has core storage enabled on all newer Macs. Is there any reason not to revert the core storage? If I revert core storage, what happens if I want to enable...
  6. grahamperrin

    Recovery OS, Core Storage, Disk Utility: one request, two runs of fsck_hfs

    A single request for first aid causes two runs of fsck_hfs(8), both of which have file system check exit code 0, zero (the volume appears to be OK). More specifically: the first run of fsck_hfs is preceded by, and followed by, Core Storage stuff – a reported fix (growth) of the LV, to fill the...
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