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HFS+ or APFS ?
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1792781" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Hey Rod:</p><p></p><p>I'm really not sure what will happen in your case, but this has been my own experience:</p><p></p><p>When I received my iMac from Apple it was already pre-loaded with High Sierra and the SSD was formatted as APFS. However, I needed to migrate all of my settings and data from my older iMac which had been formatted as HFS+, also running High Sierra. I used a CCC clone of that to overwrite what was on the new iMac. And it did not disturb the APFS formatting even though the clone was HFS+.</p><p></p><p>I suspect when you erase the MacBook Pro and then restore High Sierra to it, it will retain the APFS formatting. If it doesn't, you can always go the other way as you stated above.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1792781, member: 46727"] Hey Rod: I'm really not sure what will happen in your case, but this has been my own experience: When I received my iMac from Apple it was already pre-loaded with High Sierra and the SSD was formatted as APFS. However, I needed to migrate all of my settings and data from my older iMac which had been formatted as HFS+, also running High Sierra. I used a CCC clone of that to overwrite what was on the new iMac. And it did not disturb the APFS formatting even though the clone was HFS+. I suspect when you erase the MacBook Pro and then restore High Sierra to it, it will retain the APFS formatting. If it doesn't, you can always go the other way as you stated above. [/QUOTE]
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