Posts Tagged “Apple File System (APFS)”

Claiming Time Machine Backups November 12, 2024
Use a Cloned Drive to Recover From Mac Failures (4)October 30, 2024
Disk Images in Sequoia October 16, 2024
A Brief History of Defragging (6)October 11, 2024
The Switch From File Paths to URLs (1)August 2, 2024
Snapshots Aren’t Backups (11)August 2, 2024
Carbon Copy Cloner 7 (2)May 17, 2024
Seven Years of APFS (11)April 3, 2024
A Disk So Full, It Couldn’t Be Restored (4)April 3, 2024
Clearing Space on Your Mac (13)March 19, 2024
Sonoma’s “cp -l” Won’t Create Links December 7, 2023
Computational Bridal Photo (4)December 4, 2023
Disk Images in Sonoma (1)November 30, 2023
iCloud Drive Switches to Dataless Files October 27, 2023
APFS Versions, Updates, and Compatibility (3)September 6, 2023
Why You Can No Longer Roll Back a macOS Update (3)July 24, 2023
Disk Utility in macOS 13.4 May 25, 2023
Volume Names, Mount Points, and Normalisation May 17, 2023
Getting Ready for Dataless Files (8)May 11, 2023
Apple’s Big Gamble: the 6th Birthday of APFS (2)March 30, 2023
Ventura Time Machine Backups and the APFS Uncertainty Principle (10)March 13, 2023
Overhead of Using APFS Encryption March 8, 2023
Ejecting External Disks With macOS 13 (2)February 16, 2023
DiskWarrior 5.3 (5)February 14, 2023
Folders With High File Counts (9)January 19, 2023
Removing Unwanted APFS Time Machine Backups (3)August 16, 2022
WWDC 2022 Wish Lists (21)June 3, 2022
Will Disk Utility Ever Work Properly? (1)May 26, 2022
Disk Utility Can Only Check Backup Disks in Recovery (1)May 20, 2022
Should You Continue Using HFS+? (8)May 19, 2022
Time Machine Evolution and APFS (13)May 18, 2022
Upgrading to a 14-inch MacBook Pro With a Studio Display (22)April 8, 2022
triald (2)April 4, 2022
How to Check an APFS Backup Store (1)February 23, 2022
Sparkle 2.0 December 29, 2021
Disk Utility in Monterey (5)November 9, 2021
diskspace Tool to Report APFS Free Space (4)November 5, 2021
Backblaze Computer Backup 8.0 (8)July 7, 2021
APFS Volume Names Are Still a Unicode Mess (2)July 1, 2021
Why You Can’t Roll Back Big Sur’s System Volume (3)June 30, 2021
Remaining Issues in Big Sur (40)May 24, 2021
Carbon Copy Cloner 6 (1)May 20, 2021
Big Sur Really Needs Real Free Space (15)May 16, 2021
Replacing vs. Migrating Core Data Stores March 31, 2021
Sparse Files Are Common in APFS March 30, 2021
ExpanDrive and File Provider Framework (12)March 30, 2021
Mac OS X at 20 (4)March 24, 2021
How to Reserve Time Machine Space on an APFS Drive (11)January 19, 2021
Let’s Make 2021 the Year of Disk Utility January 1, 2021
Mojave Security Update Removes Support for Automatic Snapshots December 30, 2020
Booting an M1 Mac From an External Disk (9)December 22, 2020
Apple Silicon Mac mini for Continuous Integration December 18, 2020
Is Big Sur’s System Volume Sealed? December 2, 2020
Requesting Entitlements, Still Broken (2)November 23, 2020
Updating to Catalina, Finally (10)November 9, 2020
Awaiting SuperDuper for Big Sur (7)September 7, 2020
Is macOS Becoming Unmaintainable? (9)August 31, 2020
macOS 10.15.6 (15)July 16, 2020
APFS Snapshots of the Big Sur System Volume (20)July 14, 2020
mount_apfs TCC Bypass and Privilege Escalation July 3, 2020
APFS and Time Machine in Big Sur (1)June 30, 2020
Installing the macOS 11.0 Beta (4)June 23, 2020
macOS 10.15.5 (12)May 27, 2020
APFS Sparse Bundle Bugs (1)April 28, 2020
Arq 6 (18)April 13, 2020
APFS Snapshots and Large Files (7)March 3, 2020
What You See in the Finder Should Always Be Correct (10)February 26, 2020
Mac Backups and the Versions Database February 21, 2020
macOS 10.15.3 Update Doesn’t Create APFS Snapshot (9)February 13, 2020
How to Downgrade a New Mac to Mojave From Catalina January 10, 2020
How Clean Re-installs Change in Catalina December 19, 2019
SuperDuper 3.3 for Catalina (2)December 11, 2019
Time Machine in Catalina November 19, 2019
Enabling Defragmentation on APFS Hard Drives (5)October 28, 2019
Waiting to Update to Catalina (24)October 12, 2019
APFS Enumeration Performance on Rotational Hard Drives (28)September 19, 2019
Hitting the Limits of APFS (1)August 12, 2019
SuperDuper 3.2.5 June 25, 2019
Backing Up macOS 10.15 Beta (7)June 6, 2019
Performance Considerations When Reading Directories on macOS (4)April 22, 2019
Quantum Computing and APFS: Free and Used Space (6)April 11, 2019
iMac 2019 (9)March 20, 2019
How Time Machine Makes Backups With APFS (2)March 7, 2019
Secure Erase and Mojave’s Disk Utility (5)February 6, 2019
Closing Down Coriolis Systems (9)January 14, 2019
Aliases, Hard Links, Symlinks, and Copies in Mojave’s APFS (2)January 14, 2019
How OmniDiskSweeper Reports Free Space (1)December 6, 2018
Preview Truncates Modification Dates November 30, 2018
APFS in 2018 (2)November 19, 2018
Apple File System Reference (1)September 21, 2018
BlackBag on APFS Encryption (1)April 5, 2018
Carbon Copy Cloner and APFS Snapshots (1)April 2, 2018
macOS 10.13.4 (3)March 30, 2018
High Sierra Stored APFS Volume Passwords in Log Files (7)March 23, 2018
Genius Bar Not Prepared for APFS (5)March 19, 2018
Practices Make Perfect (Backups) February 23, 2018
iDefrag and iPartition Discontinued (7)February 22, 2018
Is APFS Fully Supported Yet? February 19, 2018
Data Loss on APFS Sparse Disk Images (5)February 15, 2018
Creating a Bootable APFS Clone From the Command Line January 26, 2018
Decrypting an APFS Encrypted Volume Using diskutil January 3, 2018
Using GitUp (3)December 15, 2017
Drive Genius 5.1 Adds High Sierra Compatibility (1)December 15, 2017
SuperDuper 3.1 Supports APFS Snapshots for Both Source and Destination (5)December 8, 2017
Dive Into APFS (6)November 15, 2017
Local Time Machine Uses APFS Snapshots (4)November 13, 2017
Biskus APFS Capture (1)October 27, 2017
How Well Do Filesystems Handle Errors? (3)October 23, 2017
Backing Up Cloned APFS Files October 23, 2017
How iCloud Drive Can Break Time Machine Backups (2)October 17, 2017
APFS and Institutional Recovery Keys October 12, 2017
APFS, SuperDuper, and EFI October 9, 2017
Encrypted APFS Volume’s Password Exposed as Hint (13)October 5, 2017
Finder’s Unwanted Conversions to APFS (1)September 29, 2017
APFS Benchmarks (5)September 26, 2017
macOS 10.13 High Sierra Released (7)September 26, 2017
A11 Bionic (2)September 21, 2017
SuperDuper and APFS (4)September 15, 2017
macOS 10.13 High Sierra Shipping Soon (8)September 13, 2017
APFS to be Mandatory for SSDs in High Sierra (20)August 29, 2017
Carbon Copy Cloner 5 (1)August 28, 2017
APFS Support Is Undone in 10.12.6 July 24, 2017
APFS and Fast Catalog Search July 20, 2017
Pondering the Conversion From HFS+ to APFS (6)July 12, 2017
APFS Native Normalization (16)June 27, 2017
WWDC 2017 Links (3)June 7, 2017
Reverse Engineering APFS April 24, 2017
APFS to Add Case-Insensitive Variant for Mac (10)March 31, 2017
APFS’s “Bag of Bytes” Filenames (57)March 24, 2017
Testing Out Snapshots in APFS February 12, 2017
macOS 10.12 Sierra Notes (9)September 21, 2016
Apple File System (APFS) (12)June 17, 2016
WWDC 2016 Links (3)June 15, 2016

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