Support for encrypted HFS+ ends next year in macOS 28. Does that also affect encrypted disk images? Could you use in situ conversion to APFS Encrypted on old Time Machine backups?
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A round-up of what we know so far, including Time Capsule support, encrypted HFS+, DVDPlayer framework, preparations for Rosetta removal, and logarchive format.
Have you got any encrypted HFS+ disks you still back up to, or tucked away in storage? Now is the time to plan what to do with them. Here is a guide with practical suggestions.
Apple has announced that support for HFS+ encryption will be removed in a future version of macOS. How this is all about ending support for CoreStorage, and where it has gone since then.
Golden Gate is bringing more than AI. Here are some of the improvements already detailed, some cautions to be aware of, notes on running GG in a VM, Intel support info, and an app update.
Introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 to extend resource forks, they have flourished since. Explains their storage, how they persist or don’t, with an appendix explaining their flags.
If you’ve upgraded to Tahoe, your Time Capsule should still back up normally. But erase it to start new backups, and Time Machine refuses to back up to it any more.
A survey of support for APFS, HFS+, FAT and ExFAT, NTFS, ZFS, Linux file systems, and MacFUSE with its potential for file systems running in user-space.
Trim enables an SSD to erase pages of unused memory so they’re ready for reuse. It saves time, and greatly improves write performance. How to the best out of Trim.
How APFS is the first Mac native file system to have true inodes and inode numbers. What they are, and how you can use them in volume groups and different types of file link.
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