Mac High Sierra + APFS not writing to HFS

[patatas]

Is there a way for someone with an APFS filesystem to write to HFS. I am trying to copy files to an external drive formatted for MacOS 7/8

 

[Dandu]

Mac OS X is not writing to HFS since many years.

Actually, there is no reliable solution. At home, i use a Raspberry Pi with A2server as a "proxy" : old Mac and modern Mac can write and read on it.

 

[Bolle]

I run 10.5 (the last OSX to write HFS standard) in a VM for that.

 

[BadGoldEagle]

Have you tried FuseHFS? It was made by Jesús Álvarez a couple of years ago for Macs running 10.6 or later. Perhaps it works with High Sierra? I very much doubt it but still, it's worth trying IMO.

 

[Bolle]

Been there, done that, couldn't get it to work on anything modern

 

[CC_333]

I had this problem for awhile when I was upgrading to Snow Leopard in 2009 (feels like ages ago!), because at the time, I still had some HFS stuff floating around, and I wanted to be able use it. I could read, but not write (SL was the first OS X to drop write support for HFS).

Fortunately, everything since 8.1 supports HFS+, so I've simply used that for everything, and when I want to play with HFS, I either do it in an emulator (such as Mini vMac) or go to an older real Mac that can write to it (such as one of my many PowerBooks).

The way things are going, I figure it won't be long before HFS+ becomes read-only (by then, HFS will probably be dropped altogether). I will be sad when that time comes. 21 years for a filesystem which is compatible with virtually every Mac made from 1991 (68040) to present day (Intel) is quite impressive. At least for Apple, which seems to have a distinct disdain for backwards-compatibility.

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[techknight]

Well Fat32 is still kicking it, especially for USB Sticks. and even NTFS goes way back as well. 

 

[CC_333]

Yes. Fat12, which dates back to about 1980 or so and is a predecessor to Fat32, is still in common use today with floppy disks!

And, what's more, I think Windows 10 still supports them!

At least the USB kind.

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