Questions tagged [hfs]
The HFS (Hierarchical File System) is an Apple specific file system format. **HFS+** is the current standard for Mac OS X and is also referred to as **Mac OS Extended** format. HFS, HFS+, HFSJ, HFSX are all included with the HFS tag here.
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How do I mount a disk using MacFUSE?
I have an old harddisk that's formatted as HFS, which I would like to read on my modern Mac that runs Ventura. I've got the physical connection covered: I've connected the HD via a SATA/PATA to USB ...
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Missing free space after Sonoma, and it's not Snapshots!
After upgrading to Sonoma I've been running out of disk space (and application memory) even tho Finder shows 300+GB free. I read about it being a common problem with too much Time Machine snapshots in ...
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Accessing iCloud Drive files via AppleScript
I am trying to get AppleScript to open a file located at iCloud Drive:Documents:Manuals:BBEdit_13.0.1_User_Manual.pdf. tell application "Finder" open file "/Users/cb/Library/Mobile ...
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How do I copy a Time Machine backup from an HFS volume
I've been using Time Machine to backup to an external hard drive. Recently I got an error saying that TM could no longer back up to the backup volume, because it was read-only. (I assume it's read-...
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Compare two directories using mac terminal while ignoring the "._" in the file name
Just finished a copy of an external drive (exFAT) to another drive (HFS) using standard the Finder's Cmd+C, as I want to format the first drive (exFAT) to HFS. Now, I've been trying to verify all the ...
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Question mark file system problems
2016 macbook.. power to question mark… it can’t find an os. Boot to recovery mode, open disk Utility Finds only os core partition with is formatted in hfs. Apple file system partition is missing. Ok ...
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reverting from Catalina to earlier OS
I have a late 27" imac with a 3TB internal drive. It currently is divided into three partitions.. one is running catalina, the second is a carbon copy of the first - the third is my music library....
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Extra disk with 0 byte of storage showing on mac
I have a 2017 MacBook Pro 15". I recently removed a windows partition. Now the disk utility is showing an HFS+ volume with 0 bytes of storage. I tried to remove it using disk utility, recovery ...
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What is really meant by "Invalid B-tree node size"? How to solve it without expensive 3rd party softwares?
I've been having troubles with my external HDD and have been looking so hard for a solution. I've tried everything. Diskutil, FSCK, testdisk. But only to find what I already know... "Invalid B-...
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Reading HFS standard and MFS on Catalina
During the lockdown I decided to use some of my time to backup all the all Mac disks and floppies I have at home so I can store them in a somewhat more readable format that SyQuest cartridges and MFS ...
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Give Free Space from "Free Space" partition to a specific partition
After some issues with my internal disk, I moved my OS on an external drive which is split into : - (disk2s2) Macintosh HD (Apple_HFS): my operating system; - (disk2s5) Volume 1 (Apple_HFS): My ...
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How to read Mac OS Extended (Journaled) USB drive if I'm getting: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"?
So, I wanted to do a fresh install of Catalina, and have done a backup on my USB drive. Before transferring the data to USB, I've formatted it as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". After I've installed ...
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Seagate Backup Plus Mac reformatted to NTFS don't mount on Mac
I have a Seagate Backup Plus Mac drive that, as the name implies, came with the HFS format for Mac. I reformatted it to NTFS to be compatible with a Windows PC (I was not working with Mac at the time)....
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Mounting encrypted HFS partition after messed up partition table
I have an external 2 TB Harddisk that had a 1.5 TB exFAT Partition and a 500GB HFS+ encrypted Partition. I wanted to shrink the 1.5 TB to 1 TB. I used https://www.diskgenius.com/ to shrink the exFAT ...
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HFS partition fails to mount on Mac after being mounted on Ubuntu
I recently followed the instructions here to mount an Apple-formatted HFS external drive on Ubuntu. I transferred the files I needed, then unmounted the drive. Now the drive won't mount in OSX. In ...
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