Issue with Boot Camp with APFS drive

I'm trying to install Windows 10 on my mid-2017 MacBook Pro and only realized the implications of the APFS in the past few days. I can't seem to find a way to work around the issue. Last time I installed Windows on a Mac was on El Capitan (Windows XP).

Boot Camp tells me I don't have enough space in my drive to partition it (Requires 40GB). I have over 700 GB free on my system (within the synthesized APFS volume). When I try to create a partition manually using Disk Utility, The system shows that I have around 600 MB unused, and won't let me touch the APFS size.

I have deleted all the Time Machine snapshots in case that was the issue and it didn't change anything. I have an active Time Machine set up but I'm scared to delete my whole drive and recover it using TM. (I expect it would revert everything to how it is now, rendering the attempt useless)

I also tried almost everything in this thread: Issue with Boot Camp with APFS drive (probably everything except deleting the drive, which was ultimately the solution in this case)

Could anyone help please? I'd really appreciate it!

MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, macOS High Sierra (10.13.4)

Posted on Jun 14, 2018 2:06 AM

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Jun 14, 2018 10:25 AM in response to Loner T

Giusses-MBP:~ mgiu96411$ sudo fsck_apfs -n -l /dev/disk1

Password:

** Checking volume.

** Checking the container superblock.

** Checking the EFI jumpstart record.

** Checking the space manager.

** Checking the object map.

** Checking the APFS volume superblock.

** Checking the object map.

dev_init:476: Using /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/T/fsck_apfs.33053.1/apfs and /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/T/fsck_apfs.33053.1/nx for device-io.

** Checking the fsroot tree.

** Checking the snapshot metadata tree.

** Checking the extent ref tree.

** Checking the snapshots.

warning: apfs_num_other_fsobjects (67) is not valid (69)

Fix apfs_num_other_fsobjects (oid 0x403, xid 0xf8d27)? NO

** Checking the APFS volume superblock.

** Checking the object map.

** Checking the fsroot tree.

** Checking the snapshot metadata tree.

** Checking the extent ref tree.

** Checking the snapshots.

** Checking the APFS volume superblock.

** Checking the object map.

** Checking the fsroot tree.

** Checking the snapshot metadata tree.

** Checking the extent ref tree.

** Checking the snapshots.

** Checking the APFS volume superblock.

** Checking the object map.

** Checking the fsroot tree.

** Checking the snapshot metadata tree.

** Checking the extent ref tree.

** Checking the snapshots.

** Verifying allocated space.

** The volume /dev/disk1 appears to be OK.

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