How-to: Format Your SSD as APFS on Mac
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มี.ค. 2021
- 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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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.
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
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.
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 😊
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!
wow, I mean I don't find good tutorials in general but perform it with VoiceOver feature its just incredible, thank you!
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.
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!
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!
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.
Wonderful tutorial. Very helpful. Thanks, Andre!
Actual legend, thank you so much. This was the only helpful tutorial
Brilliant Andre, many thanks, very useful and I'm sorted now.
Thank you sir - your calming voice definitely helped 😂
Perfect! Thank you so much for your time to make this!
Thank you for this tutorial. I appreciate it !
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!
Wow this information was super useful.
I appreciate this video, quick and easy!!
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.
Thankyou bro for this tutorial , you are the only one who made it
Fantastic! Thank you so much for the easy tutorial!
PERFECT! Just got a new External where APFS was missing. Thanks so much!!!
Brilliant tutorial, thanks very much!
Thank you so much for such a great tutorial
Thanks, this helped a lot!!
Thank you!! That was driving me crazy before I saw your vid!
Big thanks, you made it simple, recommend tutorial
Thanks so much! Super easy! Great video!
Wow I was stressing so much!!! Thanks a bunch man
Thanks, I just got a Flash Drive to use for my Mac. That worked perfectly for me.
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!
Thank you! Great tutorial.
Thank you so much ! I was going crazy and you helped me
You’re very welcome.
You are amazing. thank you so much!!!
thanks a lot. appreciate your commitment for this video.
You are my hero. I spent so much time trying to erase my M.2. Thanx
Thank you very much, Great tutorial
thank you so much for the tutorial!
You helped me a lot. Thank you so much.... 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
great video, thanks!
Thank you this help me so much.
Thanks, was confused before this
Thanks this was awsome
Thanks a million will try this to see the results
Did it work?
Thank you very much 🥰 you very helpful me!
Excellent, thanks
Agree, very useful. Thank you !
Thanks that was very useful
good video , thanks
Thank you so much!!!!
thank you very much very much helpful
Thank you !
Thank you so much ❤
THANK YOU 😊😊😊
Thanks bro
Thank You!!
Big thanks all the way from HAwaiʻi
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
Excellent no-nonsense tutorial! Too bad Apple doesn't make this easier.
awesome thank you
Thanks for sharing. Had no F'in clue how to? Now A-OK.
TKS a LLLOOOTTT....!!!!! VERY helpfull..!!!!!!!😃😃😃😃
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.
can't format it to apfs: 'unable to dismount volume from disk4s2 because the process 0 (kernel) is using it.'
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?
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.
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?
@@user-fj9bw7rf5b in a word, nope. This is exactly what you need to do.
Happy st Paddys day
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Really like your video, but, it didn't work for me. I followed your extremely clear directions. I wasn't able to partition
save me, thanks
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!
Thank you!!!