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Offline Raven

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What is APFS?
« on: July 08, 2023, 11:59:29 AM »
My wife uses a Mac mini. OS 12.6.2 with Super Duper 3.7 to back up every night.
She's been getting a message every day that she ignored (CANCEL)...
When I finally saw this message (see screen shots), I did "Convert to APFS". Not knowing what would happen other than it would take a "long time". Well, it went all night long and I had to Force Quit Super Duper this morning!
Can someone please explain what APFS means? Is it necessary? How to do it properly?Much thanks!
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Re: What is APFS?
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2023, 04:56:00 PM »
DuckDuckGo searches are your friend!

From Wikipedia:
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Apple File System (APFS) is a proprietary file system developed and deployed by Apple Inc. for macOS Sierra (10.12.4) and later, iOS 10.3 and later, tvOS 10.2 and later, watchOS 3.2 and later, and all versions of iPadOS. It aims to fix core problems of HFS+ (also called Mac OS Extended), APFS's predecessor on these operating systems. APFS is optimized for solid-state drive storage and supports encryption, snapshots, and increased data integrity, among other capabilities.

A 2017 HowToGeek article.

From "the horses mouth", you too can be an expert! 🤪
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