{"id":20911,"date":"2018-03-19T16:47:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T20:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20911"},"modified":"2018-03-19T16:47:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T20:47:46","slug":"genius-bar-not-prepared-for-apfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/19\/genius-bar-not-prepared-for-apfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Genius Bar Not Prepared for APFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theoverspill.blog\/2018\/03\/19\/apfs-genius-bar-mac-repair-warning-hfs\/\">Charles Arthur<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/notio\/status\/975761484960681984\">Michael Yacavone<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/theoverspill.blog\/2018\/03\/19\/apfs-genius-bar-mac-repair-warning-hfs\/\">\n<p>Except that the rMBP only had a 500GB SSD. How had it got two? &ldquo;Have you got a Fusion drive in here?&rdquo; the Genius asked.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>At this point the Genius said he suspected there was something wrong with my SSD. So he restarted the machine, held down the key to boot from a network drive, whizzed over to the one marked 10.12 and started up. Could Disk Utility read my drive now? No, it couldn&rsquo;t.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Do you have this backed up?&rdquo; he asked, indicating the computer. I sure did &#x2013; SuperDuper clones, and a Time Machine backup. &ldquo;I think we might need to reinstall the operating system.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>That, of course, is why the Genius&rsquo;s HFS+-encoded 10.12 network drive couldn&rsquo;t understand my APFS-encoded SSD. So I&rsquo;d wiped the hard drive for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Apple obviously needs to implement some network drives formatted with APFS. Which might mean an overhaul of how it does some stuff in-store; but it should expect that there are going to be more and more people coming in with machines that are APFS-encoded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>As I understand it, the issue is not that the boot drive has to be formatted as APFS but that it needs to be running macOS 10.13. <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/content\/documentation\/FileManagement\/Conceptual\/APFS_Guide\/FAQ\/FAQ.html\">macOS 10.12.6 supports APFS<\/a>, but only the older version that does not do <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/27\/apfs-native-normalization\/\">native normalization<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Arthur (via Michael Yacavone): Except that the rMBP only had a 500GB SSD. How had it got two? &ldquo;Have you got a Fusion drive in here?&rdquo; the Genius asked. [&#8230;] At this point the Genius said he suspected there was something wrong with my SSD. So he restarted the machine, held down the key [&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":[],"tags":[1395,58,416,30,1381,1529],"class_list":["post-20911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apple-file-system-apfs","tag-appleretailstores","tag-applecare","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-12","tag-macos-10-13"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20911","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=20911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20912,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20911\/revisions\/20912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}