“We have never heard of PRISM,” said Apple spokesperson Steve Dowling in a statement. How Have The Companies RespondedĪpple, Facebook, and Google have each responded with flat-out denials. The PRISM document claims that the intelligence data is being gathered to analyze people’s contacts and movements over time, but it doesn’t say how such data is analyzed, or how individuals are chosen to be analyzed. It’s unclear what specific information has been shared, and even less clear who’s information has been shared. While specifics of what has actually been shared aren’t in the slideshow, the following types of files are called out:Īccording to the slideshow document, at least since 2007, when Microsoft joined PRISM. Finally, developer Mike Bombich notes that if a quit and relaunch of Disk Utility doesn’t clean up the display of the volumes, a reboot certainly will. Hopefully, at some point in the future, Apple will clean this up. This bug has annoyed me for some time now. The SSD was ready for a macOS install after the erase, all along, but now there’s no confusion. Note that this cleaned up presentation has the same structure as the boot SSD above it. If you quit Disk Utility and relaunch it, you should see the proper, cleaned up hierarchy: Device > container > volume. (In this example, named “Betelgeuse.”) It should look like this: All cleaned up. It persists in Mojave early betas.) The ghost device and volume in red.ģ. (My thanks to Mike Bombich of Bombich Software for confirming. In many cases, and even with a hard disk, you may well see a confusing “ghost” device and a “ghost” volume. As the article just above explains, in the drop-down sheet select: volume name, “ APFS” and “ GUID Partition Map.” (Note I’m erasing a previously erased device in this example.) Erase SSD, format as APFSĢ. Then, from the tabs at the top select Erase. Check out this note by Jeff Gamet.īasically, the trick is to use the View widget at the top left to select “ Show All Devices.” Now We’re Ready to See an Interesting Bugġ. Disk Utility may or may not come up in the desired mode. Then launch /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app. But I always archive those files first, just in case. If encryption is needed, macOS supports it. Here at TMO we almost always ignore those files because we’re going to totally erase the disk. You may well see, in the Finder, some developer specific tools and/or encryption tools. If you’re unsure about APFS containers, see:Ĭonnect the SSD, very likely with a USB-C to USB-A (or USB-C) connector cable. The first thing to know is that, when you format the external SSD as APFS, you’ll be creating an APFS container and then the desired volume inside it-which you’ll name. However, if you’re planning to install a developer version or public beta of Mojave, read this note by Jeff Gamet. So you have an external SSD which you want to format as APFS and install, say, macOS High Sierra. Apple’s Craig Federighi introduces APFS, (Apple File System), WWDC 2017. When formatting an external device in preparation for macOS High Sierra (or the public beta of Mojave), an odd bug can appear.
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