![]() ![]() That’s one gotcha, and although there are others, they get pretty geeky and most won’t affect you: (If you’re not sure what sort of storage your Mac has, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu and click the Storage tab.) However, if your Mac has a hard disk drive or Fusion Drive, it won’t be converted to APFS at this time.Macs running OS X 10.11 El Capitan and earlier cannot mount or read volumes formatted as APFS.So don’t format external hard disks or USB flash drives as APFS if you might need to use them with older Macs. However, Macs running High Sierra from APFS-formatted drives work fine with external hard disks still formatted as HFS+. ![]() Although the High Sierra installer can convert a volume from HFS+ to APFS during installation, you cannot convert an APFS volume back to HFS+ without first erasing it.You’ll have to back up any data on it, format as APFS, and then restore the data.We recommend against using old disk repair and recovery software that hasn’t been updated for High Sierra on an APFS-formatted volume.Apple’s Boot Camp, which lets you run Windows on your Mac, doesn’t support read/write to APFS-formatted Mac volumes.Volumes formatted as APFS can’t offer share points over the network using AFP and must instead use SMB or NFS.Īpart from the problem of APFS-formatted USB flash drives not being readable by older Macs (or Windows computers), most people shouldn’t run into any problems with APFS-everything it changes is under the hood and will just result in a Mac that’s faster, more reliable, and more secure.And since Apple already quietly transitioned millions of iOS devices to APFS, it’s a good bet that switching millions of Macs to it will go equally smoothly.I've used MacUpdate for years to keep the apps and other software on my Mac up to date. It's an excellent companion to using Software Update. The web site tracks over 40,000 applications, and provides helpful info like user ratings and details on paid versus free upgrades and more. ![]()
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