Yes, although it’s a pain in the patootie, because while converting from HFS+ to APFS and encrypting a drive are all non-destructive and happens in place, converting back to HFS+ requires erasing everything on the disk. Is there a way to undo this process, or at least recover my Time Machine backup going back 2 years and re-setup my external HD? ![]() Macworld reader Chee had this happen to them, and wrote in to ask: If you use the Finder option to encrypt a drive in High Sierra, macOS converts the format to APFS before encrypting. ![]() You can accidentally convert a drive to APFS without macOS warning you that you’re about to do so. This has been known for months, and because you typically have to take steps to convert a drive to APFS, it hasn’t been an issue for most people. This is a significant problem that many Macworld readers want to make sure others know about. ![]() Time Machine can’t make use of Apple File System (APFS) volumes.
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