Watch: Everything you need to know about Apple's macOS High Sierra release
Apple on Monday released its latest and greatest Mac operating system, macOS 10.13 High Sierra, to users around the world. Check out what's new in this video.
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my imac is fusion unfortunately..
( it was not ‘unfortunately’ when i bought it though)
Craig seems to have confirmed that fusion drive will be supported in future updates ..
I did have a problem when converting the HDD boot drive in my Mac mini to APFS—iit would stale during the boot—but that was during an early beta. I will convert it to APFS, but it needs to be done via Disk Utility in Recovery Mode, but since it's a headless machine I'll have to connect a monitor, mouse and keyboard, which is why I haven't tried it since the initial High Sierra beta install which had the check box to convert to APFS.
I've not jumped onto High Sierra yet, mainly because of the APFS' lack of support for Fusion Drives.
The fact that I really need to clean up my 3TB iMac drive is also another factor. I don't want all my redundant data slowing up the indexing again, if it happens.
Right now I only had an iMovie update and then nothing else showing up.
Cheers
My issue deals with APFS encrypted. I was able to encrypt external drives during beta but now when I try and encrypt my external SSD drive, it starts the process then says it's encountered an error. I re-partition to HFS+, which clears out the APFS containers (confirmed with diskutil apfs list) then partitioned with simple APFS and it works. This is being done on a MBP with aftermarket SSD, which was also upgraded to HS.
Disk Utility has the ability to partition APFS encrypted but it might on be for internal drives. I don't see any GUI method of changing my internal SSD to APFS encrypted. I don't believe FileVault for HS, which is still available, is the same as converting APFS to APFS-encrypted. I know I could use the command line to (hopefully still) do it but it has to be easier than that, especially when I wasn't given the option of using APFS-encrypted when upgrading the internal disk during the HS upgrade.
Superduper! has a beta version available that isn't "signed", which surprises me because they've signed their regular apps for a long time. It runs by taking a snapshot then (I believe) backing up the snapshot. I haven't looked at Carbon Copy Cloner yet but Superduper! did appear to run properly. I haven't tried booting from it yet. That's on my list for this morning.
I formatted my backup drive as APFS-encrypted before backing it up with Superduper! and when I check it, it doesn't say it's encrypted so not sure what's going on. It's a standard HDD. I'll also try that again.
Since my iMac uses Fusion, I can still use the current released version of Superduper! to back it up to a regularly formatted RAID disk (not sure what I'm going to do with this one once APFS is available for my iMac).
The High Sierra install took about 45 minutes, and went off without a hitch - the only caveat is that I had to reconnect my WiFi, as the WiFi connected to my neighbor's WiFi for reasons I do not understand - and that wasn't even a complete internet connection. But, this was easily remedied. Once I reconnected my WiFi to my home wireless connection, everything worked as normal.
My Fusion drive remains HFS+ at 750GB, my external HDD storage remains HFS+, and I have all the software advantages that come with High Sierra. When High Sierra gains the APFS for Fusion and HDD support, I'll simply do the upgrade and have my file systems updated. I see no reason to hold off on the upgrade.
I have a mid-2011 iMac which does not technically have a fusion drive, but something kind of similar. It has two separate physical drives: a 256GB SSD drive (for system files and applications, etc.) and a 2TB HDD (for documents, etc.). These two drives appear as Macintosh HD (the SSD) and Macintosh HD 2 (the HDD) in the Finder.
Does anyone how High Sierra will handle this situation? Will it convert the SSD to APFS and leave the HDD an HFS+ or will it leave both formatted HFS+ (thinking it may be fusion drive like)?
If it does convert the SSD and leave the HDD alone, could that cause issues running High Sierra with two different file systems on the same machine?
Also, what about Time Machine backups? Would there be issues with Time Machine trying to back up two different files systems for a single computer?
If anyone happens to know the answers to the above questions, I (and anyone else with a mid-2011 iMac) would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks!
If you or anyone else can install an OS on a computer, you surely know what kind of computer it is! And the reason to even mention that the newest MacOS does NOT work on a given computer is to state which computers those are! For example, if I came here and said, "I installed MacOS High Sierra on a Hackintosh and it didn't work" you and I and the rest of us would exclaim, "NO DUH!" But if you said, "I installed it on a 2017 iMac and it didn't work" then we could try to work with you to understand why.
Sheesh! I don't understand it when people post vague things and expect to have their comment garner attention! The only reason I care is because I have some older Macs and am interested in hearing the experiences of others who may also have them but who have installed High Sierra on them.