Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
I called Apple because my App Store App is not working anymore (quits when launched) and I can't update further than 10.14. I was told to reinstall the OS on my 2017 MacBook Pro. I was going to reinstall but it will not because my drive is not formatted as APFS, it's Mac OS Extended (Journaled). What is the best way to proceed. Do I have to format my drive and restore from my CCC backup? If so, do I format as APFS or APFS (encrypted)?
Thanks
Update
Just for people to know, I made sure I had a full CCC backup and rebooted from the backup (had to jump through a couple of hoops to make this happen). Launched Disk Utility and formatted the internal drive to APFS. Launched CCC and restored the backup to the internal drive. All went well. The internal drive kept the APFS formatting even if the backup was made when the internal drive was HFS. I had first tried to put the Mac in Recovery mode, format drive, re-install the OS and migrate the files from the backup. What a mess. It did not work. CCC worked great and all is working great now.
Update
Just for people to know, I made sure I had a full CCC backup and rebooted from the backup (had to jump through a couple of hoops to make this happen). Launched Disk Utility and formatted the internal drive to APFS. Launched CCC and restored the backup to the internal drive. All went well. The internal drive kept the APFS formatting even if the backup was made when the internal drive was HFS. I had first tried to put the Mac in Recovery mode, format drive, re-install the OS and migrate the files from the backup. What a mess. It did not work. CCC worked great and all is working great now.
Actually, you can update further than 10.14. The current release version of Mojave is 10.14.2: Get macOS Mojave. Converting from HFS+ to APFS will require reformatting the disk to APFS. Unless you require special protection in which case use APFS (Encrypted.)
Do not try using CCC to clone your HFS+ backup to a newly formatted APFS drive because CCC will revert it to HFS+ in order to make the restored system bootable. Instead only restore your files contained in your Home folder. Restore any third-party apps from their original sources.
You can erase your old CCC backup and reformat the backup drive to APFS then make a new backup.
If necessary you can convert your hfs to apfs on the fly.
From Recovery http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
DiskUtility>Edit>Convert to apfs
https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/upgrade-mac-apfs-after-high-sierra/
I have Show All Devices selected and it's still greyed out when selecting either volume.
Unfortunate , but now you see your way forward.
You can manually download the combo update 10.14.2 maybe this will sort your App Store dilemma in itself.
Download macOS Mojave 10.14.2 Combo Update
The choice of converting to APFS is greyed out. Even if I boot in Recovery mode.
From Disk Utility>View>Show All Devices
addendum:
from the reference material above:
Click—select your named boot volume. (Not the physical drive above it.)
I was thinking the same way to fix the App Store but when I try to install the combo, it gives a message: "macOS 10.14.2 Update can't be installed on this disk. This Mac can only install macOS on APFS-formatted drives."
Ugg.
I am already on Mojave 10.14 but when I check for updates, it says I'm up to date.
That would be a lot of work to reinstall all manually. Would I be able to restore from a Time Machine backup maybe?
The choice of converting to APFS is greyed out. Even if I boot in Recovery mode.
Only works if you have ample space on the drive to transfer contents internally. May not work if the disk is short on free space. At least that is my understanding. 🙂
I have Show All Devices selected and it's still greyed out when selecting either volume.
How to switch to APFS
