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I have a 2 TB HD I want to use to back up via Time Machine. Its format is APFS.
All instructions online say use HFS (Journaled). How can I convert to HFS? Erasing with Disk Utility Disk Utility doesn't provide that option.
Thanks.
iMac 27″, macOS 13.2
Edward M. Baum wrote:
I have a 2 TB HD I want to use to back up via Time Machine. Its format is APFS.
All instructions online say use HFS (Journaled).
What instructions? They appear to be wrong.
How can I convert to HFS? Erasing with Disk Utility Disk Utility doesn't provide that option.
It doesn't matter if you succeed erasing it to HFS+, Time Machine will format it APFS (Case-Sensitive) because that is how it is supposed to work.
Edward M. Baum wrote:
I have a 2 TB HD I want to use to back up via Time Machine. Its format is APFS.
All instructions online say use HFS (Journaled).
What instructions? They appear to be wrong.
How can I convert to HFS? Erasing with Disk Utility Disk Utility doesn't provide that option.
It doesn't matter if you succeed erasing it to HFS+, Time Machine will format it APFS (Case-Sensitive) because that is how it is supposed to work.
Yes, it does in Big Sur and newer.
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Does Time Machine work with APFS formating?
