{"id":17122,"date":"2021-04-14T23:46:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T22:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/?p=17122"},"modified":"2021-04-25T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T10:35:13","slug":"apfs-retrofit-kit-for-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/2021\/04\/14\/apfs-retrofit-kit-for-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"APFS Retrofit Kit For MacOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17123 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/screen-shot-2021-04-15-at-003057.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/screen-shot-2021-04-15-at-003057.jpg 543w, https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/screen-shot-2021-04-15-at-003057-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/screen-shot-2021-04-15-at-003057-100x67.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 85vw, 543px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have a Mac with MacOS X up to El Capitan (OSX 11), you can neither access APFS-formatted external drives, nor connect to a Mac in Target mode formatted as such. If your OS-harddrive is formatted as HFS+, you can only mount, read and write to other HFS+ disks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Paragon wrote a driver in 2018, with which you might be able to READ a APFS disk, but it vanished not long after. I guess Apple wanted to entice people to upgrade to an OS later than El Capitan, or better, update to a newer machine, and therefore probably forced the driver out of open linkage.<\/p>\n<p>This URL is fetched out of Wayback Machine, but apparently it is still on the company&#8217;s webserver: <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.paragon-software.com\/free\/Paragon-1218-FRU_MacInstallUnlock_1.0.164.dmg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/dl.paragon-software.com\/free\/Paragon-1218-FRU_MacInstallUnlock_1.0.164.dmg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17124 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/screen-shot-2021-04-15-at-003349.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/screen-shot-2021-04-15-at-003349.jpg 400w, https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/screen-shot-2021-04-15-at-003349-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/screen-shot-2021-04-15-at-003349-96x100.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why did I write this? Because I despise being forced into a corner; because I take pride in keeping my old machines alive; and because I dislike their tactics. And to send a message. They might send ME one, I don&#8217;t know &#8211; it&#8217;s all speculation on my part &#8211; but then it&#8217;a all safely tucked away at Wayback machine. They can&#8217;t touch that, can they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; to mount APFS drives on OS&#8217; up to El Capitan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2291,181,239,2289,2288],"tags":[2914,2916,2915],"class_list":["post-17122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-driver","category-mac","category-mac-osx","category-macos","tag-apfs","tag-hfs","tag-target-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17122"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17163,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17122\/revisions\/17163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}