My WD "My Passport Ultra for Mac" reverts to APFS after I set it to Mac External (Journaled)

My WD "My Passport Ultra for Mac" reverts to APFS after I set it to Mac External (Journaled). After what appears to be a successful ERASE and format as written in my previous sentence. If I go back to Disk Utility, it will say the external disk is an APFS. Is this OK? It appears to work with my Time Machine backup. BTW, my Apple is a Mac Mini M1 2020 using OS Monterey 12.0.1. In concert with the addition of this newly formatted external used for Time Machine, my computer or my old, but still perfect picture "Thunderbolt Display" (one or the other) has been going dark randomly, and showing what look like selection, highlighting, of desktop items ghost thru. Are these issues related.

Posted on Nov 24, 2021 7:52 AM

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Nov 25, 2021 1:07 PM in response to jeffreythefrog

Thank you “jeffreythefrog.” It is nice to feel the shared “why, oh why,” does the greatest gadget corp on the planet need to be so, so !#%! corporate-like, greedy, more and more “obfuscatious.” [made up word, I think?!] Yes, yes, planned future earnings, I realize. But, if there was one of a few brand giants I’d love to see do right by this pretty little blue ball we cherish, it would be Apple. My battle with keeping my songs to myself… the song I purchased with purpose for when and how it was recorded (!!!!), this melee is possibly moot, anachronistic, undoubtedly ubiquitous. I know. Ever so small the I that is me. And this on an order of magnitude uncountable and way beyond the cat in the box. I am certain you and I and our, so-called human, cohabitants, whom are freeloading and riding along on the coattails of the survivors whom from sprang the next. Us, who shan’t remember the smallest of horror(s) 20 years, 70 years back, let alone 600 years, or 500,000 years (never remember to love not hit), will not rate a day dream, in the mind, if their is some such kind of “consciousness” in previously mentioned blue gem. She, it, they, the particles, of infinity, will not remember “us,” in time. Us who are all there is to us. Yes and no, and maybe. Earth (God) rest ye merry gentle man and woman… fretting the swap of Eddie Vedder singing his bloody heart out on a stage in Arkansas (what I want to hear) for the studio version, is lame on my part. But thank you for the corroboration Mr. Frog.

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