{"id":19053,"date":"2017-09-29T20:11:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T00:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19053"},"modified":"2017-10-01T10:21:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T14:21:30","slug":"unwanted-conversions-to-apfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/29\/unwanted-conversions-to-apfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Finder&rsquo;s Unwanted Conversions to APFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bombich.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/29\/think-twice-before-encrypting-your-hfs-volumes-on-high-sierra\">Mike Bombich<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/bombich.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/29\/think-twice-before-encrypting-your-hfs-volumes-on-high-sierra\">\n<p>Take any HFS+ formatted volume that does not have an installation of macOS on it (that part is key), right-click on the volume in the Finder and choose the option to encrypt it. Rather than simply converting the volume to a CoreStorage Encrypted volume and keeping the HFS+ format, macOS converts the volume to APFS with no warning, and then enables encryption.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>APFS Encrypted volumes aren&rsquo;t backwards compatible at all, so if you attach that converted disk to a Mac running an older version of the OS, you&rsquo;re greeted with this heart-attack-inducing error message[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But if I disable encryption on my APFS volume, the APFS part sticks &#x2013; it&rsquo;s not possible to convert an APFS volume back to HFS+ without erasing it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Bombich: Take any HFS+ formatted volume that does not have an installation of macOS on it (that part is key), right-click on the volume in the Finder and choose the option to encrypt it. Rather than simply converting the volume to a CoreStorage Encrypted volume and keeping the HFS+ format, macOS converts the volume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1395,131,458,30,1529],"class_list":["post-19053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-file-system-apfs","tag-bug","tag-finder","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19062,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19053\/revisions\/19062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}