APFS

When you upgrade to Catalina from an earlier OS (EL Capitan 10.11.6 MB Retina, 12", Early 2016) will it reformat the internal hard drive from HFS+ to APFS?

MacBook, OS X 10.11

Posted on Aug 22, 2020 10:06 AM

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Kappy

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Aug 22, 2020 10:12 AM in response to Jarjar1946

Yes, but it will do so non-destructively.

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