![]() While there are some securtity issues you mentioned to give reason to convert, it's not neccessary to convert all of ones external drives if you don't want to. I've only tried High Sierra, but it saw and opened HFS+ files with no probelms. HFS+ docs open just fine on a later APFS OS computer. The Disk Utility app will open, displaying a single window divided into three spaces: a toolbar, a sidebar showing currently mounted drives and volumes, and an info pane, showing information about the currently selected device in the sidebar. Sorry, but you are DEAD WRONG telling people that APFS OS's like High Sierra won't be compatible with older HFS+ external volumes. Launch Disk Utility, located at /Applications/Utilities. ![]() I thought really! So I checked it out on my wife's computer running High Sierra with an APFS start up SSD. I freaked when I played your video saying that APFS no longer supports HFS+ and that all my external drives will have to be converted to be used. (Renaming the ‘Untitled’ drive in Finder) 2) In Disk Utility, click on the drive ‘Untitled’ to select it in the left sidebar, then click the Erase button at the top of the window. I figured the same with High Sierra since Apple wants to keep things backwards compatible for such a major move in file systems. 1) In a Finder window, locate the drive ‘Untitled’, right-click on it, and select Rename ‘Untitled (see screenshot below). I really liked the fact that Sierra can read both HFS+ and APFS files. ![]() I'm in the process of possibly converting my MBA and Mac Pro from Sierra to High Sierra to be able to read and write to third party NVMe drives for the added speed over SSD Sata drives. ![]()
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