How-to: Format Your SSD as APFS on Mac
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- If this tutorial is too long for you, try my quickfire video which is an edited version of this one. find it here: • How-to: Format your SS...
In this video, I'll show you how to format your SSD as APFS on a Mac.
This is useful for storing your sample libraries, and so long as you don't want to use the drive on a Windows-based system.
If your primary use (like me) is for storing samples, you definitely will want to format the SSD as soon as you get it out of the box.
Note: This video assumes you've bought one of the many external SSD's that ship formatted as exFAT, which is not recommended for use with sample libraries.
If you're not blind and curious why there's a strange voice talking whenever i do something, it's because I myself am blind, and made this tutorial to benefit those with sight, and also those without.
This is why you will hear a strange woman talking to you and reading out everything you can already see on-screen.
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Thanks for your support!
That's extremely kind of you to make this accessible for the Blind. These things are tough enough as it is.
Haha well it comes from me also being blind myself, so it just makes sense really.
I learned 3 new things - instrument samples better played off of APFS, how to do this, and how useful the reading is... four things actually.. the generosity of the collective is incredible.
Thank You! I needed my format to be APFS instead of ExFat in order to move my sims 4 onto the external hard drive. I appreciate this!
Man, thank you so freaking much for this straightforward, to the point tutorial. I've been struggling for years with delays in loading plugins under the ExFat format. Thank you x 1000. You are a blessing
You’re very welcome 😊
I was very nervous about doing this but this video was so clear and helpful. Thank you!!
wow, I mean I don't find good tutorials in general but perform it with VoiceOver feature its just incredible, thank you!
Thank you so much for helping out, I forgot to do the second step and that was my problem, thanks to you and for the blind community we’re helping one another from Orlando, Florida
Thank you for this video!!
Im not blind myself, but I appreciate you making this accessible for those who are. Keep up the good work!
I viewed this when it initially came out. However today I now decided to take the plunge and do it. With your help I felt like a surgeon performing a surgery but I was able to do it you did a great job!
Thanks wry much. I hope I covered all the salient points well enough.
If I missed something, please let me know and I’ll add it to the video description as an addendum or something.
Thanks, I just got a Flash Drive to use for my Mac. That worked perfectly for me.
thank you! very helpful tutorial
Thankyou bro for this tutorial , you are the only one who made it
You are my hero. I spent so much time trying to erase my M.2. Thanx
Thank you for your help. I put in a used windows SSD into an older iMac 2011 and I couldn’t figure out how to apfs file format to show up. Thank you once again.
Thank you sir - your calming voice definitely helped 😂
Thanks a lot ! MAN YOU SAVED MY DAY
I WAS FEARED WHEN I SEE NO APFS IN MY Brand new Ssd
But thank God
I got Your Amazing video in my search feeds
You made my Day
Thank you 😊
Thank you!! That was driving me crazy before I saw your vid!
Thank you so much for your video. Excellent and very much appreciated. Many thanks from Wales. Paul h
This helped me out BIG TIME! Thank you so much!
Brilliant Andre, many thanks, very useful and I'm sorted now.
Thank you so much for making this video!
You helped me a lot. Thank you so much.... 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Wow this information was super useful.
Well done, much appreciated! I was always wondering why sometimes I had APFS as option and at other times I did not... the crux was [Command + 2] and change the partition map first. I would not discover that on my own so well done Andre, much appreciated! Have fantastic holidays!
You are amazing. thank you so much!!!
Thank you very much for this help , i bought a samsung ssd t7 for my imac 2013 to boot macOs and i need this configuration before!
PERFECT! Just got a new External where APFS was missing. Thanks so much!!!
Big thanks, you made it simple, recommend tutorial
Actual legend, thank you so much. This was the only helpful tutorial
thanks a lot. appreciate your commitment for this video.
Awesome tutorial! I wanted to format mine and found your video. Keep up the good work and thank you for making the process really easy.
Thanks so much! Super easy! Great video!
Thanks, was confused before this
thank you so much for the tutorial!
Perfect! Thank you so much for your time to make this!
it worked, thanks bro
Wow I was stressing so much!!! Thanks a bunch man
I appreciate this video, quick and easy!!
Thank you very much, Great tutorial
great video, thanks!
Thank you so much for such a great tutorial
Thank you so much ! I was going crazy and you helped me
You’re very welcome.
Excellent no-nonsense tutorial! Too bad Apple doesn't make this easier.
Thank you this help me so much.
Thanks. I will be using my T7 for Kontakt libraries etc...so APFS will better than extended journaled thingy?
Definitely. I believe that HFS+ is going to be deprecated at some point anyway, so might as well use APFS going forward, if possible.
Excellent, thanks
Thanks this was awsome
Thanks for that, I'm totally new to Mac so I was a bit confused as how to format and change the file system, I must say it's a lot easier in Windows Apple should sort out this overly complicated and frankly illogical method without any explanation of how to format and change the file system, then you wouldn't have to waste your time explaining how to do it, I have now managed to change my new 1TB nvme ssd from ExFat to APFS thanks to your clear instructions, Cheers Mate
Thank you very much 🥰 you very helpful me!
Thank you! Great tutorial.
Thanks for sharing. Had no F'in clue how to? Now A-OK.
Wonderful tutorial. Very helpful. Thanks, Andre!
Thanks, this helped a lot!!
Thank you so much!!!!
THANK YOU 😊😊😊
Thanks a million will try this to see the results
Did it work?
can't format it to apfs: 'unable to dismount volume from disk4s2 because the process 0 (kernel) is using it.'
Big thanks all the way from HAwaiʻi
thank you very much very much helpful
Thanks bro
good video , thanks
Agree, very useful. Thank you !
Thank you so much ❤
TKS a LLLOOOTTT....!!!!! VERY helpfull..!!!!!!!😃😃😃😃
Thanks that was very useful
Hi! Can I ask if my data will be erased if I reformat my T7 ssd from EXFAT to APFS after i hit the erase button? Thank you!!
Yes, certainly your data will be erased hence the button name.
It really does wipe the drive completely, so be exceedingly careful.
@@TheOnjLouis Thank you for the reply! quick question, so I will have to back up all my things from my T7 SSD to another hard disk , reformat my T7 SSD , and transfer back the files from my hard disk to my SSD?
is there an easier way to do this?
@@JamesWong-n7e in a word, nope. This is exactly what you need to do.
Thank you!
MacOS supports EXT4 natively now? I really need to patch bigsur on to my 2008 mac pro if it does
Hmm, I didn’t even think about that.
On my Intel Mac I have Paragon NTFS and EXTFS installed, but it’s not on this one so you might be right about that.
Didn’t even consider it.
Definitely check on that before hand though, as mine might be showing things it can’t do. I did restore from a time machine and remove those apps, so maybe they left some dirty code behind in the format window.
I got, 'couldn't open device, Operation failed' Please Helppp did I miss something for this to happen?
Thank You!!
What are all those extra clicks and clacks I can hear as well as VO?
Could just be my Sound Note App which gives me UI sounds for common things like you get in windows.
awesome thank you
Really like your video, but, it didn't work for me. I followed your extremely clear directions. I wasn't able to partition
Happy st Paddys day
❤
save me, thanks
For the love of God why on earth did you record this clip with the auto voice text reader on , it is annoying as hell and serves no purpose. Other than that, great clip just what I was looking for cause I could not access any APAS FORMATE OPTIONS.
@@leftofcenter4 If you would kindly take the time to read the youtube description, you would realise that I, and a lot of my followers are blind/visually impaired, so I did this for *them* not you. If you happen to benefit from it, great, but please don’t come here and complain that I did something to benefit blind people as well. Consider that the world isn’t just made for you, and there are others with needs beyond your own…
Thank you for your understanding.
The voice is annoying and barely able to be heard. It seems superfluous.
You failed to understand that I am visually impaired, and I teach visually impaired students that use VoiceOver, IE: The voice you hear.
Although *you* may find it 'superfluous' that sound is not for you. It's for the hundreds of other blind people that *have* benefited from this video, and not just someone sighted clicking around with a mouse saying 'click here, do this, press that' which is all too prevalent on youtube as it is.
I am here to redress that.
Thank you for your understanding.
Hi Andre. I have Multiple Sclerosis and what happened was my old iMac was quite old and had a conventional 3.2 Terabyte had drive in it which had been formatted in extended journaled, and also partitioned in two. One partition had my old operating system on it. When I upgraded one of my operating system to Big Sur. The upgrade didn't do a very good job of converting the Hard Drive to APSF and it locked up the hard dive. I now can't change which drive I boot from. I was hoping I can just drag copy the old system onto an external hard drive on my newer computer. Then boot from it to recover my old photos and info from it.
If that makes sense ?
Thank you for this tutorial. I appreciate it !
Brilliant tutorial, thanks very much!
Thank you !
Thank you!!!