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APFS conversion - how big a beverage?
So I'm using 3.5-beta3 to do an APFS conversion of a 500GB SATA disk. I am told "This could take a long time: you might want to get yourself a beverage." It's taking a very long time. Should I spring for a keg instead of a bottle? Seriously, are we talking minutes, hours, or days? (No Time Machine involved.)
Last edited by Dan Lester; 07-19-2021 at 07:01 PM. |
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Well, that's hard to say. But it shouldn't be much more than an hour. If it is, I would stop it, restart your Mac, check to see if it converted it but didn't exit (it's a system tool we're waiting on), and if not, erase the drive as APFS yourself...
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Thank you. I wonder if it would be possible to include an indicator of how far along the process is? I assume what's taking so long is rewriting with data preservation, because if you just use Disk Utility to erase the disk and AFPS it, it only takes about thirty seconds. Oh, by the way, when the process is ongoing in SuperDuper, the "cancel" button is dimmed, so you can't stop it from inside the program. You can't even just simply quit SuperDuper to stop it. You need to force quit SuperDuper.
Last edited by Dan Lester; 07-20-2021 at 10:25 AM. |
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It doesn't give us any status or progress, so we have no idea. And we don't know if it safe to cancel, so we don't put a button up...
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