MacOS High Sierra continues to support full disk encryption, but Mike Bombich, who created Carbon Copy Cloner, has verified a bug in High Sierra that will cause an external drive to have its format changed from HFS+ to APFS when the drive is encrypted in High Sierra.Įnabling encryption on a drive should not alter the underlying drive format.
This is especially true for portable Mac users, who need to worry about their Macs being lost or stolen. Full disk encryption has been a boon for Mac users who worry about their personal data being easily accessible on their Macs or external drives. The tradition lives on with macOS High Sierra, so we’re gathering a list of what High Sierra broke and how to fix it (when you can).Įncrypting an entire drive to add a level of security has been an easy task in the Mac OS ever since FileVault 2 was released as part of OS X Lion. It seems with each new version of the Mac operating system, there are some features that just don’t seem to work the way they used to.
It’s almost become a tradition one that we wish we didn’t have to put up with.
