Macworld

Watch out! macOS High Sierra could format your Time Machine drive using APFS, and that’s not good

Time Machine can’t make use of Apple File System (APFS) volumes. This is a significant problem that many Macworld readers want to make sure others know about. This has been known for months, and ...
Macworld

macOS Big Sur supports Time Machine on APFS-formatted drives, but there are a few catches

Apple started shifting Macs from its old HFS+ filesystem to its more sophisticated APFS format with macOS 10.13 High Sierra. In that release, all SSD-based Macs were upgraded to APFS. Fusion Drives ...
Bleeping Computer

macOS May Lose Data Due to APFS Filesystem Bug

Under certain conditions, macOS may copy data into the void, leading to data loss of important files, all due to a bug in how the operating system handles APFS sparse disk images. The issue was ...
Pocket-lint

Upgrading to MacOS High Sierra? Don't forget to convert your external drives to APFS too

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...
Bleeping Computer

macOS High Sierra Logs Encryption Passwords in Plaintext for APFS External Drives

macOS High Sierra users are once again impacted by a major APFS bug after two other major vulnerabilities affected Apple's new filesystem format in the last five months. This time around, according to ...