Hi, recently purchased a new external hard drive - and whilst formatting for time machine noticed container disks???? What are they - and is this why my memory is always full, and Mac so slow? Also, was told to format the external hard drive to HFS+ but that option wasn't available???
A Container is the APFS equivalent of a partition.
Containers have Volumes. They are virtual divisions of the container and share the space allocated to the container amongst all other volumes.
There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with what you have shown in your screenshots.
Also, was told to format the external hard drive to HFS+ but that option wasn't available???
I missed this part.
Why were you told to do that? Well, besides the fact that you should format your drives for use with a Mac.
"HFS+" is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
When you erase it, you should also choose the GUID Partition Map.
Stressed Mum wrote:
Also, was told to format the external hard drive to HFS+ but that option wasn't available???
Just to add, your external drives all appear to be formatted as HFS+. You can't format your internal drive as HFS+ because you are running Catalina. As noted, everything looks normal.
Thanks sorted now - I was told it on the enclosed leaflet the came with the hard drive! Ended up ringing apple and they advised - help me set up time machine again as that inmost important - leaving everything else till that complete - taking hours and hours and another 19 hours to go! Aaaarrrggghhh
Thanks sorted now - I was told it on the enclosed leaflet the came with the hard drive!
Well, that's good to hear that they do tell you to erase it and make it work with your Mac. I thought they just told people to install the bundled garbage software to allow you to write to NTFS. That garbage breaks when you look at it wrong.
container disk - huh?
