Looking for any information on a solution from this post. Why does it appear as an option in the list of file systems in Disk Utility when attaching a drive that's already got converted to 'APFS Physical Store'? What are the conditions for which macOS will display the label 'APFS Physical Store' in Disk Utility? Has anyone experienced these issues.Īpple's technical support in my country was not able to solve the issue nor could answer some of the basic questions which I've asked above to them.

How to get back from APFS Physical Store to APFS so that my mac can read it back?Īlso would be helpful, if you can please let me know what exactly does 'APFS Physical Store' actually mean? Would really appreciate inputs / a solution to reverse back from what macOS Mojave has done. Is Mojave known to be a problem creator to convert APFS partition automatically to APFS Physical Store?Ĭan anyone provide me some details on this issue, if possible? I was using APFS on High Sierra with these 2 USB hard drives and there was no issues at all ever. This scenario has occurred twice to 2 of my Seagate hard drives only after upgrading to macOS Mojave. I know erasing it / formatting it is a quick fix, but is not an option as because the hard drive has data in it.

But, the USB hard drive is detecting in Disk Utility.

How to read an APFS Physical Store partition? Hello,Īfter upgrading to macOS Mojave 10.14.1I plugged in my Seagate USB APFS based hard drive and it got converted automatically to APFS Physical Store and is not mounting anymore.

Setting up my passport ultra for mac