I’ve been trying to fix my mac since months ago, gave up and finally came back to it again recently. Nothing worked for two whole days I almost lost hope again but then I stumbled upon your video and this absolutely worked!!! You saved my life, thank youuuuuu
YES! This is the only place I've seen any mention of the DIFFERENCE IN HD FORMAT BETWEEN HIGH SIERRA AND POST-HIGH SIERRA Macs -- CRUCIAL!! Thanks a million dude!!
You sir, are a LIFE SAVER - I was factory resetting my mac to sell it and it formatted to apfs then I panicked and pulling my hair out looking for solutions, even apple support weren't helping! but here I am, thank you so much
Omgggg I wish I would have seen this earlier 🤦🏽♀️ I stopped using my laptop for a week, didn't know what to do. It didn't want to work at all. Thank you so much for sharing this!! LIFESAVER 😭
Absolutely fantastic!!!! I tried Catalina twice and both times a complete disaster. Apple tech could not figure this out and yet it is so simple. Thank you very, very much. A++++++
Thank you a lot. My laptop wasn’t working. I checked for weeks to find a video to fix my laptop, and finally I found a video that fixed my laptop, and that’s your video. You saved a $1000 from my money. I think your video is amazing. Thank you so much. I would request this video if anybody needs to fix their laptop and reset it. I will subscribe, ring the notification bell, and I will thumbs up. THIS VIDEO IS AWESOME
High Sierra does “like” APFS. Its the first Mac OS version to use it and all iOS devices are formatted in APFS. If you have an SSD as your Mac system drive starting with High Sierra or later your drive will automatically be reformatted to APFS when you install the OS. Time machine still does not support APFS and so time machine backup drives need to still use Mac OS journaled. Older Mac OS before High Sierra do not support APFS as you mention. Just wanted to clarify that High Sierra does work well with APFS.
Thats exactly what happened to me now, i erased my ssd restarting with cmd+R, formated it in Mac OS extended and reinstalled high sierra surprisingly now i opened Disk Utility and the format is APFS, and there are 4 partitions, VM(no idea it takes 8Gb), 2 unmounted, and the system, I don't know how to delete those partitions and why they never appeared before, any suggestions? MBP 8,1 late 2011
@@ronaldrojas5011 one is probably the recovery partition. You can resize or delete partitions up in the menu tool bar somewhere but be careful. I’m not in front of my Mac at the moment. Disk utility has become more user friendly with Mojave and up with APFS, it’s a bit weird in High Sierra.
This video worked! I partitioned a 14 tb harddrive and couldnt reformat back! This really saved me from deleting a bunch of files thinking I was going to lose them. THANKS!
Easiest most straight-forward video on the problem. You have done a brilliant job in fixing this. I had exactly the same problem and this repaired it in a jiffy. Many thanks!!
Thank you so much for this trick, it saved me a lot of time and frustration! Although I had to wait for 6 minutes until you finally revealed how this can be done...
Omg I’ve been trying to fix my laptop since last two hours and as soon as I followed u r video booom .... it’s done bro ... thank you so much ... u r amazing .
Bro I literally just ran into this situation with my Mother-In-Law, thought I was completely hosed until I found your video. Cannot begin to thank you enough. Many, many thanks.
Im getting tired for long 2 days about looking how to fix this problem, black screen on my macbook pro and finally found this tutorial, big thanks bro.. your’e save my mac qodarullah
Absolutely saved me from going insane - as I just had my hard drive replaced on my iMac and the guys didn't ask what OS to restore it to... automatically installed Catalina on my late 2013 iMac... doh! When I got it back, no way of restoring my last backup from time machine as it was incompatible with the APFS format. After many hours of trying different things I came across your post. BOOOM! Thank goodness.
Dude. I was laughing hysterically watching this because you did EXACTLY what I did. Thank you for doing this video. I did see the "Delete APFS Volume" but didn't want to dig a hole I couldn't get out of. Thank you so much for doing this.
Thanks for showing us how to get Extended Journaled back!! Lets be honest, 95% of us are doing this kind of stuff on older macs. The newer macs suck for any DIY customizations.
Bro you literally saved my life and my SSD lol... I was resurrecting a MacBook 2012 I found in storage and another dude said format it APFS with GUID and his worked to install Catalina but then mine 💀🤦♂️ thanks soooo much 🍻 subscribed
You literally saved the day - couldn't believe when I googled the problem that someone else would have had the same issue - and you have helped sooooo much. So easy to fix with your straight forward instructions (hate the terminal too). Thank you thank you thank you - you are amazing! 🤗
Great Video. I'm doing some significant house cleaning for myself with external drives. I'd stuck with Extended / HFS on all external drives over the years, even with SSDs because I hadn't realized the advantages of APFS. Now I'm flushing all the old formats away and going all APFS. I'm sure I would have run into this exact issue without anticipating it because I've still got an Old laptop in the mix myself, and also I'll be helping extended family members update gizmos to APFS. And, even if I didn't have this exact problem, your style was super refreshing and relaxing to watch. I subscribed. Thanks! -Shwa!
Thanks Gunner for the video, what a life saver!! You’ve made a disgruntled, confused man very happy in an instant, really appreciate you putting this online for all of us others struggling with this issue to resolve so quick & easily and not having to pay some tech nerd a shed load of cash just before Christmas, many thanks, Stevo (Manchester, England)
I just wanted to say thanks a lot man you are the goat for me i was having such a hard time and 3 years later your video helped me a lot to figure this thing out quick simple and easy thanks man hope this video helps others
thanks for the kind words bro! im happy it helped. i first made this when apfs just came out and man i was buggin like now what?? till i figured this out.
Been trying to download steam but couldn’t because I was on APFS format didn’t know how to switch it because it didn’t show the option thank you so much this is the exact video I needed for my problem thank you
7:05 at this point you will get "...disk xxxxx couldn't be unmounted because it is in use by process 0 (kernel)", so you can only do that on the external drive. Basically, once you mistakenly upgrade to APFS you cannot reinstall High Sierra (unless you have another Mac to create a bootable USB, or to move that HD there to do the recovery).
bro this saved my life! i made the mistake with the newest macbook air and convert the file to the journal instead of the afps and then couldnt figure out how to reconvert it. so thank you so much!
Thank you sooooo much! I've watched countless videos trying to install the Mac OS Sierra and yours did. Followed each step to the last and boom it worked, yes I had to spend over 2 hours to get installed and reset login details- so worth it. You are the king of Mac OS! Gracias.
All you have to do is click on that view button and choose "show all devices" instead of "show only volumes", this shows the APFS container (not only the logical volume), clicking on the container > erase you will have all the options like a normal partition (because it is, in fact, it's like the old extended partition from MBR)
Hi. Thanks for this easy to use problem solving. I only use terminal if there is abundant info online. The worst that can happen is that I use my backup to restore. I am about to try this now.
Hey great job - not a techie at all, but your assistance got the job done, and Ive now got a functional mac after hours of messing around uselessly. Peace and love.
You sir are the Goat 🙏🏽 been having this problem on my Mac Pro 10 for a week now & couldn’t find anything that worked until I saw your video Thank You !
Thanks hugely for this. After many attempts at deleting and reinstalling High Sierra on a 2010 13" mbp, I was losing my mind re why it wouldn't work but I had made the same mistake - had formatted SSD drive APFS not knowing it wasn't supported by HS. Big thanks for saving my sanity.
Just change the view in Disk Utility to "View All Devices". You can then format the drive as anything you want. When you only see APFS that is because by default the view mode is "Show Only Volumes" and you are only seeing the APFS container and not the actual drive itself in the side bar.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I had the same problem and now I can format my spare hard drive to Journaled again. I had no idea about the Edit - Delete APSF Volume option. All the best.
I think it's even easier now - at least on my Mojave verison of Disk Utility. Top left tab ("View") choose "Show All Devices." In the sidebar you'll see the APFS disk which, as before, can't be reformatted as MacOD Extended . However, above that icon is the "Container disk(x)" icon - select that and all the formatting options are available!
Thank you so much I just ran into the same problem literally yesterday he was trying to figure this out so now I know how to fix it thank you you are awesome!
Hey thanks a lot for this! I swapped out my hard drive for ssd, and I didn’t know about AFPS. Got rid of it and reinstalled High Sierra with your help. Cheers!
Checkout 6:07 for everyone who wants to know the answer in 1 second ;-)
I never comment on youtube. Probably this one after 7 or 8 years. Thanks.
Thank You
Damn I can't imagine having waited 6 minutes to get such a basic answer. Why do UA-camrs do this?! You're a good man, Rene.
Thank you for helping us save time!
Thanks very much xxx
I’ve been trying to fix my mac since months ago, gave up and finally came back to it again recently. Nothing worked for two whole days I almost lost hope again but then I stumbled upon your video and this absolutely worked!!! You saved my life, thank youuuuuu
Man, this creater of the video is AMAZING
YES! This is the only place I've seen any mention of the DIFFERENCE IN HD FORMAT BETWEEN HIGH SIERRA AND POST-HIGH SIERRA Macs -- CRUCIAL!! Thanks a million dude!!
You sir, are a LIFE SAVER - I was factory resetting my mac to sell it and it formatted to apfs then I panicked and pulling my hair out looking for solutions, even apple support weren't helping! but here I am, thank you so much
AMAZING. Was having that same apfs issue and could not find a solution anywhere. You rock.
Omgggg I wish I would have seen this earlier 🤦🏽♀️ I stopped using my laptop for a week, didn't know what to do. It didn't want to work at all. Thank you so much for sharing this!! LIFESAVER 😭
I did the EXACT same thing you did - step by step and this 100% was the fix that I needed ! Thanks for the great run through!
Guys this IS NOT a scam! This saved my computers life! Thanks so much
Absolutely fantastic!!!! I tried Catalina twice and both times a complete disaster. Apple tech could not figure this out and yet it is so simple. Thank you very, very much. A++++++
Dude, I was pulling my hair out trying to figure this out. Thanks!
Thank you a lot. My laptop wasn’t working. I checked for weeks to find a video to fix my laptop, and finally I found a video that fixed my laptop, and that’s your video. You saved a $1000 from my money. I think your video is amazing. Thank you so much. I would request this video if anybody needs to fix their laptop and reset it. I will subscribe, ring the notification bell, and I will thumbs up. THIS VIDEO IS AWESOME
High Sierra does “like” APFS. Its the first Mac OS version to use it and all iOS devices are formatted in APFS. If you have an SSD as your Mac system drive starting with High Sierra or later your drive will automatically be reformatted to APFS when you install the OS. Time machine still does not support APFS and so time machine backup drives need to still use Mac OS journaled. Older Mac OS before High Sierra do not support APFS as you mention. Just wanted to clarify that High Sierra does work well with APFS.
Somehow my MacBook Air 2015 does not like APFS. It had Mojave and it won’t let me upgrade to Big Sur since it’s asking for a firmware upgrade
Thats exactly what happened to me now, i erased my ssd restarting with cmd+R, formated it in Mac OS extended and reinstalled high sierra surprisingly now i opened Disk Utility and the format is APFS, and there are 4 partitions, VM(no idea it takes 8Gb), 2 unmounted, and the system, I don't know how to delete those partitions and why they never appeared before, any suggestions? MBP 8,1 late 2011
@@ronaldrojas5011 one is probably the recovery partition. You can resize or delete partitions up in the menu tool bar somewhere but be careful. I’m not in front of my Mac at the moment. Disk utility has become more user friendly with Mojave and up with APFS, it’s a bit weird in High Sierra.
This video worked! I partitioned a 14 tb harddrive and couldnt reformat back! This really saved me from deleting a bunch of files thinking I was going to lose them. THANKS!
Easiest most straight-forward video on the problem. You have done a brilliant job in fixing this. I had exactly the same problem and this repaired it in a jiffy. Many thanks!!
Thank you so much for this trick, it saved me a lot of time and frustration! Although I had to wait for 6 minutes until you finally revealed how this can be done...
This video saved my “mystery iMac” project. After asking around I came across this video and everything worked with no problems. Thanks.
Great to hear!
Omg I’ve been trying to fix my laptop since last two hours and as soon as I followed u r video booom .... it’s done bro ... thank you so much ... u r amazing .
Bro I literally just ran into this situation with my Mother-In-Law, thought I was completely hosed until I found your video. Cannot begin to thank you enough. Many, many thanks.
Im getting tired for long 2 days about looking how to fix this problem, black screen on my macbook pro and finally found this tutorial, big thanks bro.. your’e save my mac qodarullah
Absolutely saved me from going insane - as I just had my hard drive replaced on my iMac and the guys didn't ask what OS to restore it to... automatically installed Catalina on my late 2013 iMac... doh! When I got it back, no way of restoring my last backup from time machine as it was incompatible with the APFS format. After many hours of trying different things I came across your post. BOOOM! Thank goodness.
Dude. I was laughing hysterically watching this because you did EXACTLY what I did. Thank you for doing this video. I did see the "Delete APFS Volume" but didn't want to dig a hole I couldn't get out of. Thank you so much for doing this.
Bro...you saved my imac, been 2 days trying with all sorts of guides...urs fixed it 😛
Dude ... 2 hours down the tubes ... 8 minutes through your video with a lead I wouldn't have checked ... fucking awesome ...
Thanks for showing us how to get Extended Journaled back!! Lets be honest, 95% of us are doing this kind of stuff on older macs. The newer macs suck for any DIY customizations.
Thank you so much you saved me. I don't have to buy a new machine this semester. Saved me at least a grand thank you!!!!
thats what i like to see!
Thank you so muchhhh! You have saved my precious computer of 2009. Its working now! Tried on 17 FEB 2020. 😊😊😊👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Bro you literally saved my life and my SSD lol... I was resurrecting a MacBook 2012 I found in storage and another dude said format it APFS with GUID and his worked to install Catalina but then mine 💀🤦♂️ thanks soooo much 🍻 subscribed
Thank You! I watched TONS of videos and only YOURS helped me get back into my computer 👍🏿
You literally saved the day - couldn't believe when I googled the problem that someone else would have had the same issue - and you have helped sooooo much. So easy to fix with your straight forward instructions (hate the terminal too). Thank you thank you thank you - you are amazing! 🤗
Great Video. I'm doing some significant house cleaning for myself with external drives. I'd stuck with Extended / HFS on all external drives over the years, even with SSDs because I hadn't realized the advantages of APFS. Now I'm flushing all the old formats away and going all APFS. I'm sure I would have run into this exact issue without anticipating it because I've still got an Old laptop in the mix myself, and also I'll be helping extended family members update gizmos to APFS.
And, even if I didn't have this exact problem, your style was super refreshing and relaxing to watch. I subscribed.
Thanks!
-Shwa!
Thanks Gunner for the video, what a life saver!! You’ve made a disgruntled, confused man very happy in an instant, really appreciate you putting this online for all of us others struggling with this issue to resolve so quick & easily and not having to pay some tech nerd a shed load of cash just before Christmas, many thanks, Stevo (Manchester, England)
Omg, that was so simple. After watching terminal command videos I can't believe there's an option right there in the menu. Thanks!
I just wanted to say thanks a lot man you are the goat for me i was having such a hard time and 3 years later your video helped me a lot to figure this thing out quick simple and easy thanks man hope this video helps others
thanks for the kind words bro! im happy it helped. i first made this when apfs just came out and man i was buggin like now what?? till i figured this out.
I was scratching my head badly 😂 thanks for sharing your knowledge bro 👍🏻✌🏼💪🏼
I made this same mistake 2 times and both times your video saved me thank you
5:46 is where the answer sits.
Thank you for this vídeo! ❤
Damn thank you so much !! I was panicking when i made it to APFS. I was about to cry 😕
Been trying to download steam but couldn’t because I was on APFS format didn’t know how to switch it because it didn’t show the option thank you so much this is the exact video I needed for my problem thank you
2 days later and a shade greyer, trying everything and I find this ! Edit / Delete APFS volume ! You saved my weekend and life lol Thx x
I was have a problem with AFPS format. You did help me!. Thanks for your generous
7:05 at this point you will get "...disk xxxxx couldn't be unmounted because it is in use by process 0 (kernel)", so you can only do that on the external drive. Basically, once you mistakenly upgrade to APFS you cannot reinstall High Sierra (unless you have another Mac to create a bootable USB, or to move that HD there to do the recovery).
bro this saved my life! i made the mistake with the newest macbook air and convert the file to the journal instead of the afps and then couldnt figure out how to reconvert it. so thank you so much!
Thank you sooooo much! I've watched countless videos trying to install the Mac OS Sierra and yours did. Followed each step to the last and boom it worked, yes I had to spend over 2 hours to get installed and reset login details- so worth it. You are the king of Mac OS! Gracias.
All you have to do is click on that view button and choose "show all devices" instead of "show only volumes", this shows the APFS container (not only the logical volume), clicking on the container > erase you will have all the options like a normal partition (because it is, in fact, it's like the old extended partition from MBR)
Thanks man! It was right in front of my face too. Who knew? Well, you did and now I do.
You saved my bacon!!! I cannot thank you enough for posting this video!!! Subscribed!!!!
Thank you so much. this saved my older mac. I'm upgrading from El Capitan to Catalina
Fuck..........I spent an hour pulling out my hair when ALL I HAD TO DO WAS ONE STEP!!! I love you!!
thank you for this incredible video! Fixed a hard drive I ordered on ebay thanks to you!
Thanks! This really helped. I bought a used 2012 Macbook Pro and I have my reasons to stick with High Sierra and the older format.
You're very welcome!
Really late to this party, but this is exactly what I needed as well (and yes, I was the one that formatted it incorrectly!). Thank you very much!!
Hi. Thanks for this easy to use problem solving. I only use terminal if there is abundant info online. The worst that can happen is that I use my backup to restore. I am about to try this now.
Damn! that was easy, ive been searching all over the internet for 2 hours, luckily found your video on google search. Thanks man
In the “view” window in the top left corner under the “x +” buttons, you can “show all devices” and get the option to erase as well
Omg just when I thought my macbook is done for good, I found this. You are truly a life saver! Thank you!!
I was stuck in the terminal and you helped me out. Thank you!
That was a facepalm moment for me lol thanks for the vid! APFS is definitely stupid
How come?
Hey great job - not a techie at all, but your assistance got the job done, and Ive now got a functional mac after hours of messing around uselessly. Peace and love.
You sir are the Goat 🙏🏽 been having this problem on my Mac Pro 10 for a week now & couldn’t find anything that worked until I saw your video Thank You !
Thanks so much for this, saved me ALLOT of time!
Thanks hugely for this. After many attempts at deleting and reinstalling High Sierra on a 2010 13" mbp, I was losing my mind re why it wouldn't work but I had made the same mistake - had formatted SSD drive APFS not knowing it wasn't supported by HS. Big thanks for saving my sanity.
Thanks mate. Explaining a nice workaround to sidestep Apple's devious control mechanisms.
THANK YOUUUUUU!!! I was already thinking of going to the Mac Center. YOU'RE A GREAT HELP!! THANKS!!!
You saved my life, couldn’t download steam on it cause sensitive and now I can!!! Thanks!
Same bro
Just change the view in Disk Utility to "View All Devices". You can then format the drive as anything you want. When you only see APFS that is because by default the view mode is "Show Only Volumes" and you are only seeing the APFS container and not the actual drive itself in the side bar.
No; I tried this before too. Get in the same problem. He found and gave a correct solution
@helimanick Yes, this worked for me. Thank you!!!
Apple should have done better warning people before formatting their disks to APFS, It was so frustrated when i first encountered this problem.
Thank you so much! It was a real head-scratcher until I came across your vid. Can't believe it was that simple haha
Huge help. Thank you for going through the steps of showing the mistake you made, so I knew we were fixing the same problem. Very useful.
Awesome video. Saved my Mac mini for my classroom.
You Sir are a Genius! And not the Apple Store kind, they're posers. Definitely subscribed. Thank You!
Man, you save the day!! I did the terminal thing and it was a trail, but with your discovery makes my life easier, thanks!!
Thank you that was explained very easily. was busy 2 days
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I had the same problem and now I can format my spare hard drive to Journaled again. I had no idea about the Edit - Delete APSF Volume option. All the best.
I was pulling my hair out! You the man. Liked snd subscribed
I did the same exact thing you did today but only with a USB . THANKS for the tip, it worked.
Perfect solution and MUCH easier than trying to use Terminal commands. Thank you!
So I did exactly what you said but when I click mac OS extended journal, it gives me an error message and now it won't let me do anything...
Music is so close to distracting.
Aye bro aye broooooooooooooooooooo IFWY thank you 🙏🏽 . This is so simple and was so stressful appreciate you fam.
Bro I been looking at videos for hours trying to fix this problem!!! Thanks for that! 👍😎
Thanks for taking the time man! So simple but complex for average ppl to do without any help. This saved me!
Thanks for the help :)
Thank you SO MUCH!!!!!!!! Wow, you are brilliant! Saved my day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Generally I don't comment on UA-cam vids, but u r amazing, thanks for the help!! You are the best!!
Thanks, this was useful when I was trying to convert my SSD to MS-DOS when it was previously used for Time Machine
Holy shit! This is EXACTLY what I needed. I'm in exactly the same situation. Thank you so much for this video!
I think it's even easier now - at least on my Mojave verison of Disk Utility. Top left tab ("View") choose "Show All Devices." In the sidebar you'll see the APFS disk which, as before, can't be reformatted as MacOD Extended . However, above that icon is the "Container disk(x)" icon - select that and all the formatting options are available!
Thank you so much I just ran into the same problem literally yesterday he was trying to figure this out so now I know how to fix it thank you you are awesome!
No sure why i am here but you saved my butt....
Wow thank you so much for this video!
Glad it was helpful!
Great fix and that was what was wrong with my 2009 Imac, changed there format and everything took off, thanks a bunch
Thank you for this, I’ve been hunting high and low for answers.. really helpful.
Thanks for this video, I spent hours trying to figure it out your video made my day. You are truly blessed!
you don’t understand how badly you saved my booty bro🙏🙏
I had this exact problem, youre a live saver man :) Apreciate it
Hey man good job, you saved a ton of time for a ton of people!
Yassss! I thought I was screwed but you absolutely saved my butt. Thanks!
You my friend; are a hero!!!! I thought my laptop was dead, thank you so much!!!!!
Hey thanks a lot for this! I swapped out my hard drive for ssd, and I didn’t know about AFPS. Got rid of it and reinstalled High Sierra with your help. Cheers!
Amazing! Thank you so much! I thought I was going to have to just throw out the computer when I formatted it wrong! Thank you!!
A tru life saver man. Thank you. Liked and subscribed.