Hi,
I forgot the check the checkbox to upgrade to APFS during the installation of 10.13.
So my Macintosh HD drive is still on HFS+.
How can I do the upgrade to APFS now? I tried re-running the installer, but for some reason, the checkbox is not shown. I can of course reformat and start from scratch, but is there any in place APFS upgrade method for the main drive?
Thanks.
So I did retrospectively upgrade to APFS on an 13" MacBook Pro with Retina display (Early 2015). I'll list the steps I've taken but I'm not really sure why this ultimately worked:
1. Turn off filevault and wait for decryption to finish.
2. From recovery select the option reinstall High Sierra (with the APFS checkbox selected).
3. Let the process finish and restart until the the kernal panic or failure to install message shows up.
4. Restart holding ⌘ + R to re-enter recovery and select disk utility.
5. partition all remaining freespace to a new volume (this will hangup with an unending beach ball).
6. Once the windows freeze with only curser freely moveable force shut down by holding the power button.
8. Start up again by holding ⌘ + R (if you start up and get a wonky 'internet recovery' screen: force shut down again holding the power button).
9. Once in the High Sierra recovery go to disk utility and run first-aid on the HD (this takes a little longer than I've expereinced with first-aid).
10. Once first-aid is complete select the HD and from the menu bar select edit followed by convert to APFS. This should now complete successfully.
11. Close disk utility and once again select reinstall High Sierra (this time there should be no APFS checkbox due to already being APFS).
12. Let the installer complete and login as normal.
Now once again, I'm not sure why this all worked and maybe someone with a little more knowledge could lend some inforamtion. This however resulted in no dataloss or uninstallation of current applications or settings.
http://imgur.com/a/oVQX5
Installed public beta 2 today, same 69853 error message. No option at install to convert, tried recovery mode/disk util/convert to APFS. Same error 69853. Wondering if the very new crucial MX300 is an issue?
I have two SSDs in my Mac mini Server that I wanted to RAID0 and install High Sierra into an APFS volume, I've tried various configurations e.g. RAIDing both physical drives, formatting a volume on each then RAIDing them etc. but nothing seems to let the installer (from a USB stick) complete (main reason seems to be it can't create a 'preboot' volume, I suspect it installs the EFI updater here - anyone know for sure?). After reading Mike's blog I think I'll stick with RAIDed HFS+ 😢
iinstalled PB3 today. Same 69853 error trying to convert. Ugh.
When I do that, the 'convert to APFS' option is greyed out.
1TB Fusion Drive (no matter if Filevault-encrypted or not), boot drive, on late 2012 Mac Minis.....
My 2008 Mac Pro (4,1 updated to firmware 5,1) had two 250GB SSDs RAID-0'ed as its boot device. Unfortunately, High Sierra doesn't support that at all and completely refused to install on that volume. I ended up having to buy a 500GB SSD and Carbon Copy Cloner it over from the RAID array. It stinks because I lost the extra speed of the RAID (since my old Mac Pro has SATA-2 ports). The better performance of the OS was worth it though. My Mac Pro is noticeably faster.
I read that Fusion Drives aren't supported yet, but are going to be eventually.
Found it:
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/25/apfs-fusion-drive-high-sierra-update/
