Ventura and extended journaled

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cyrano7 Author

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Ventura and extended journaled

I have a new Studio, Ventura 13.1.

It formatted my 1TB Seagate External Hard drive Time Machine in APFS format.

Which, my old iMac cannot read.

I tried to reformat the hard drive to Extended Journaled, but that is not an option. There are only APFS choices.

1 Is there any way to format my Time Machine in Extended Journaled?

2 I have other 1TB time machine external drives. If I plug them into this Studio, will this Studio format them, use them, in their existing Extended Journaled format?

Thanks.

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Posted on Jan 25, 2023 10:32 PM

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PRP_53

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Jan 26, 2023 2:30 AM in response to cyrano7

Important element is in Disk Utilities >> View and View ALL Devices.

Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support (CA)

As for Drive Formats used in Time Machine Backup in Ventura,

Normally an Newly formatted drive will be automatically be converted ( if needed ) to the APFS / GUID Format

It will also be marked by TM Backup as Read Only

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Answer 2

Jan 26, 2023 2:17 AM in response to cyrano7

Sounds weird. Try to format the device (not just the volumes under it -- select View > Show all devices) as FAT (MBR) to clear possible messed partition tables (?), then as Mac OS Extended (GUID) case insensitive.

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cyrano7 Author

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Jan 26, 2023 2:33 AM in response to Matti Haveri

Thanks.

When I went to erase my thumb drive, I got many options, that included Extended Journaled, so that exists.

I have a 2TB Seagate. 1TB for Time Machine, and 1TB for sundry backup.

When I went to erase the 1TB for sundry, which is Extended Journaled, I had many choices.

When I went to erase the 1TB Time Machine, I got only APFS choices.

From what I have been reading, this new Ventura will only save Time Machine in APFS.

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Barney-15E

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Jan 26, 2023 4:36 AM in response to cyrano7

any new time machine back ups will be formatted APFS. If you continu an HFS+ back up it will remain HFS+.

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