Questions tagged [hfs+]
A filesystem developed by Apple Inc. to extend HFS. Also known as "Mac OS Extended" "HFS Extended."
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APFS vs HFS+ which is better for storage and music/videos creating/editing? [closed]
MBP M1 Ventura.
I use multiple external HDDs for storage /editing videos, photos, original music.
Should I convert them APFS or stick with HFS+?
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Backing up and migrating away from HFS+
I would like to back up an old hard drive from a MacBook. It uses HFS+. I currently don't have a Mac system available, but if necessary, I can borrow one. I just used rsync to copy the whole drive to ...
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How to create a large file quickly on an HFS+ volume?
I have an HFS+ volume where I need to be able to reserve large amounts of space on it quickly, upwards of 100 GB. The recommended command to use, mkfile -n, does create large files but the -n flag ...
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How to safely copy data from Mac to Windows, preferably over network?
I am wondering what the most reliable method is to copy a large amount (1TB) of photos from a Mac computer (external HFS+ drive) to a Windows computer (external NTFS drive)?
I am hoping to do this ...
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How do I keep a full Time Machine restoration from changing the filesystem type?
I'm stuck on upgrading from Mojave to Catalina. (Yes, I'm late to the party.)
My most recent Time Machine backups continue to be from my Mojave system on an HFS+ Mac OS Extended (Journaled) filesystem....
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Is an APFS formatted drive underpinned by HFS+?
When I formatted my drive with APFS this is the output that Disk Utility delivered. It says right at the beginning Formatting disk7s2 as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with name External HD. So is an ...
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Is it at all possible for Big Sur to be booted from an HFS+ formatted volume?
For various reasons, I wanted to install Big Sur 11.7.3 on HFS+, but I could not do it. The install would always try to force-reformat my drive, so I eventually gave up and went with the APFS. Now I ...
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Why doesn't APFS come with the Journaled option?
A quick look in Disk Utility shows that Journaled is not an option with APFS like macOS Extended. Would anyone know why?
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Fusion drive on iMac model 17,1, Mojave 10.14 - APFS or HFS+ format for HDD?
I have read that APFS was optimized for SSDs, but that it's not an optimal choice[ for HDDs. However, I just got my iMac (Model 17,1; OS X Mojave, 10.14) back from repair, and both drives are ...
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Cannot copy old TimeCapsule data as disk formatted HFS+ Case-sensitive
I have an elderly TimeCapsule from which I want to copy 500Gb of TimeMachine backups.
When I mount the sparsebundle and try to copy the contents to a new HFS+ partition the process fails as the ...
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Copying Windows files from exFAT to HFS+
I have an archive (roughly 1TB) of Windows & DOS files: essentially installation files from a lot of software and then a lot of personal documents (doc, pdf, excel, etc) that I had stored for a ...
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Apple fsck.hfs borks on corrupted journal
Got message, "Unrecognized disk" and a choice of eject, initialize, or ignore
I chose ignore, then used "repair disk"
Made no difference.
Can this be fixed without reinitializing?
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Looking for the best backup option under circumstances
I know the question of "how should I backup my computer" has been asked and answered but I have some specific nuances and, well, if I knew whether they made a difference I wouldn't be asking....
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Can I migrate my Time Machine from HFS+ to a new drive with APFS?
I am running Big Sur 11.5.2
I bought a new drive (2 x 4TB RAID1 Array) to use in place of my existing 4TB Time Machine drive. Both are USB. I want to migrate my old Time Machine which is HFS+ to the ...
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2 External drives with the same error
Why would I get the same FSCK error on 2 different external drives?
About a year ago I archived some important data (photos, etc) onto a 3TB external drive and then copied it (terminal copy command, ...
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Big Sur automatic hfs_convert to APFS STUCK at 10% on external rotational drive
So I have a 3TB external rotational drive that I only ever used with older macOS versions.
Big Sur then decided to automatically do a background hfs_convert to APFS on the external rotational drive ...
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Can I delete 500GB worth of iNodes on my HFS+ 4tb Harddrive
I'm trying to free up some space on a 4TB hard drive and using TreeSize to scan all the directories, it came up with a HFS+ Private Data folder which has around 500gb of iNodes.
I'm fairly confident ...
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Recover formatted Encrypted MacOS Extended volume to HFS+ (HFS+ Encrypted to HFS+)
I've just accidentally formatted my 1TB HFS+ Encrypted partition (also known as Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)) to HFS+ (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) and lost all my data!
Is it possible to ...
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Converting an APFS volume (and it's partitions) to HFS+(non-J) without needing to migrate data
After moving from macOS to a Linux-based distribution, I benefit from deciding to have most of my backups on HFS+ partitions (with journaling disabled using a program that changes the value of ...
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Recover accidentally reformatted encrypted HFS+ volume
On my Mac I have an internal SSD divided in 2:
encrypted HFS+, case-sensitive, journaled volume:
noether 1 250 Go
noether 2 250 Go
Last night I mistakenly formatted the 2nd volume with Disk Utility:
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10.13 to Big Sur - HDD APFS System volume and HFS+ User Space
I want to install either 10.15 or Big Sur on a small APFS partiton on an internal 1 TB HDD in a Mac Mini. I've clean installed OSX and many other OSses before and am quite comfortable installing OSes.
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Repair options of a (really) Broken HFS+ "Invalid extent entry" volume?
I have an un-mountable external 2TB harddisk, formattet HFS+, one "usable" partition, containing a set of my backups. It won't show in Finder, it won't repair in disk utility, it won't ...
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How to create encrypted HFS+ partitions on Big Sur?
The Disk Utility application in MacOS Big Sur (11.0.1 (20B29)) no longer provide the option to create "MacOS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)" partitions.
Is there any other way to create HFS+...
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Big Sur - Time Machine structure
I'm running Big Sur and I noticed three things about Time Machine:
if I format a drive as HFS+ and then I choose it for Time Machine, it gets automatically converted to APFS without asking;
once a ...
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Shrinking a Core Storage volume without the booter partition
I have a 14 TB external drive containing a single 14 TB HFS+ encrypted partition (besides EFI). I cannot resize this partition to add a new one. When I tried using either Disk Utility or diskutil, it ...
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iMac 27 How to restore a SSD made invisible after formatting a fusion drive from APFS to HFS+
I bought a used Imac 27 with APFS fusion drive mOdel Identifier iMac15,1 before discovering the previous owner had replaced the original 512 Gb SSD by third party one with an adapter. After formatting ...
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How to reuse HDD from TimeCapsule without losing the data?
I've upgraded my router from Apple TimeCapsule to Keenetic Ultra. Keenetic supports HFS+ and my external drive enclosure, however when I plug in the drive from TimeCapsule only one 1 GB partition is ...
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Will enabling FileVault convert my HFS+ disk to APFS?
I have a 2017 5K iMac running Mojave 10.14.6. It has a 2 TB Fusion drive internally formatted as HFS+. FileVault is not enabled, but I wish to do so. Will the disk have its format changed to APFS ...
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What is really meant by "Invalid B-tree node size"? How to solve it without expensive 3rd party softwares?
I've been having troubles with my external HDD and have been looking so hard for a solution.
I've tried everything. Diskutil, FSCK, testdisk. But only to find what I already know... "Invalid B-...
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Is there a downside on using APFS on a conventional HDD when using macOS 10.13 or later?
I'm using Superduper to make a copy of my system disk to an external conventional harddisk (HDD, not SSD). Superduper wants to convert the disk to APFS. Until now I've used HFS+. Is there a downside ...
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How does Apple perform a lossless in-place conversion from HFS+ to APFS?
Since High Sierra, Apple has allowed users to do an in-place conversion of an existing HFS+ file systems to APFS without losing files. This can happen automatically during an OS upgrade or can be done ...
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Are cheap 2.5" external hard disks constrained to Exfat and incompatible with Time Machine? Is this a physical limitation / hardware issue?
I bought two 2TB 2.5" external HDDs that came with the following warning message in a Readme file contained in the drives.
"The drive can only be formatted with Exfat and cannot be formatted in other ...
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How can I find all the files on my Mac that have any named forks?
How can I, from either the command line, any of the included tools, or some third-party tool, go through all the files on my Mac and list any that use "named forks".
Such files should be very rare ...
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Under Catalina, should I use HFS+ or APFS when symlinking media folders to external drive
As I'm planning to install an SSD into my iMac with smaller capacity than the internal Fusion Drive its replacing, I will need to symlink my Movies, Music and Pictures folders to an external mains ...
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How to merge an HFS+ partition into my APFS partition
I want to merge an empty HFS+ partition with my Mac's APFS partition. My Disk Utility interface looks like this :
How can I do this ?
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update unsupported mac with OS X lion to APFS 10.15
Please confirm if one can help me update unsupported mac book late 2008
HFS+ to APFS
Last 2008
current OS X Lion
Mac book 5.1
Omt; Cpre 2 Duo processor
2 GHZ
1 processor
2 cores
L2 cache 3mb
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Is it possible to repair a Mac external hard drive's partition table, without access to a Mac?
I tried to create an NTFS partition on an HFS+ formatted Mac external hard drive, from within Windows. This hosed the GUID table.
In order to try to recover the files, I had to turn off journaling, ...
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Using a HFS+ formatted Time Machine backup in APFS Catalina
I've updated to MacOS Catalina on my MacBook Air. The system drive has been formatted as APFS now. I want to revert back to an older state of the system with an older MacOS (I believe it's Yosemite) ...
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Recommended disk format for external SSD running as system drive for a 2019 iMac
I'm setting up a new 2019 iMac with an internal Fusion drive. I have an external 1TB Samsung T5 SSD drive that I'd like to use velcroed to the back of the iMac as the main system drive in order to ...
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Copying 84 gigabyte file via USB results in duplicate file warning and case sensitive fail where no duplicate exists
I'm attempting to copy an 84 Gigabyte photo library from an external Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+ disk to a newly formatted case-insensitive APFS SSD. The external disk is in an external drive bay ...
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Could removing corrupted files on the MacBook or Mac's hard drive make the file system's health even worse?
I tried to move some files from the MacBook's SSD to a network drive (by drag and drop) , and the "Copy" window reported the file was corrupted. If I remove the file and empty out the trash can, could ...
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Double encryption when using encrypted Time Machine on MacOS Extended encrypted?
When I create a backup partition on an external USB drive formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) and then use Time Machine to backup to this partition with Time machine's encryption ...
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Recovering HFS+ partition
I have 2TB Toshiba 3.0 HDD. (1863 GiB). I have rewritten accidentally the GPT partition table and I need to recover it.
Old partition table. I need to recover it
It had FOUR partitions. GPT table ...
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Is there a way to force `apfsd` to defragment all the files on a disk?
As I understand, HFS+ and APFS volumes don't need to be defragmented, as files will automatically defragmented by the OS, but I'd like to leave a process running in the background that would do this ...
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How to read Mac OS Extended (Journaled) USB drive if I'm getting: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"?
So, I wanted to do a fresh install of Catalina, and have done a backup on my USB drive. Before transferring the data to USB, I've formatted it as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". After I've installed ...
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Why does conversion of non-bootable hfs+ external drive to apfs fail (on macOS Mojave)? com.apple.DiskManagement error -69888
The attempted conversion is failing. Does anyone know why?
Disk Utility.app error:
Converting “mySSD” to APFS
Converting HFS Volume to an APFS Container which will export one APFS Volume
The target ...
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Symlinks became files, containing relative paths, within an app bundle, why? How to fix?
I discovered an interesting form of corruption within some application bundles which had been stored on a file server for months and years.
The application bundles were installers for various macOS ...
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trying to Recover an HFS+ Partition The table looks fine but Disk Utility and fsck_hfs failed
I have been trying to recover my partition, on another mac, running Sierra, first I tried the usual, disk utility, and I got a list of "missing thread record" like this
Then I moved into TestDisk and ...
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Accidentally deleted my encrypted coldstorage drive. Can I recover it somehow? diskutil cs delete MAC
The hard drive connection broke in my macbook pro. I used a sata to usb cable and put it on the mac, it still didnt boot.
I went into Recovery. I believe the drive originally had 3 partitions. One ...
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Time Machine: Backups.backupdb uses way too much space when copied to another volume
I'm in the process of copying my TM backups to another volume. I followed these instructions: formatted the new volume, set the permissions, disabled automatic TM backup and dragged Backups.backupdb ...
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