![]() APFS backups are faster, and because they can copy changed blocks rather than having to copy whole files, they are more economical in terms of space too. APFS backups are stored in individual snapshots, each with their own file system, whereas HFS+ backups are all pooled together in a single file system which is inherently prone to error, a tendency which only grows the more backups are made to that volume. The new structure of the backup volume is far more reliable, and doesn’t need routine maintenance in the way that HFS+ does. There are many advantages with Time Machine backing up to APFS. I suspect that it will, but strongly recommend that anyone backing up to HFS+ and upgrading to Big Sur or Monterey should switch to Time Machine making backups to APFS. If you’re upgrading from Catalina or earlier, or are running Big Sur but still backing up to HFS+, it’s not yet clear whether Monterey will still be able to make backups to HFS+. As Time Machine backups no longer contain any of the System volume, the first backup after upgrading from Big Sur needn’t be much larger than normal either. Although it awaits confirmation in the final release of macOS 12, all the indications from beta-releases are that you won’t need to do anything: Time Machine should continue to back up happily to your existing backup storage, creating further snapshots which you can access as normal. The simplest migration is when you’re upgrading from Big Sur to Monterey, and are already backing up to APFS. One vital consideration is how to migrate our backups: this article looks at what you need to do for existing Time Machine backups, whether stored locally on an external disk, or on your network. As of this writing Google Drive’s native Mac application is not supported on M1 Macs because it is a kernel extension and those don’t run intel code on the M1 architecture.It’s that time of year when many of us are planning our upgrades, either to Big Sur or Monterey. ![]() Manipulating Files in the Finder on Google Drive when Drive is no longer a folderĪs I have many Hazel rules that sort files into my Google Drive files, I have been trying to find a way to sync my files from my local folder. I found that Transmit had support for Google Drive and I could log in to my Google Drive using that App. Then I remembered that Transmit had the feature to turn a cloud service into a local drive, however after further reading I found this no longer worked as they don’t support the Transmit Disk feature anymore.Īfter migrating from my Intel MacBook Pro to my M1, I tried to do some sleuthing to find where the Google Drive data was stored to see if the files were readable locally. Unfortunately, the files were not stored as a human-readable folder structure and instead seemed to be in another database format: Google Drive storage in the Library folder Syncing from Google Drive to a Local Folder ~/Library/Application Support/Google/DriveFS #Chronosync set up assistant pro This seemed to indicate my only option was to use Transmit to sync the Google Drive files back down to my local drive to recreate the local copy of the files. One of the drawbacks of using Transmit Sync is the inability to sync the Google Docs documents like sheets. Syncing problems down to the Local FolderĪfter doing the sync down to the local folder did not sync everything. I found quite a few errors of syncing down event XLS files and with the Transmit report, it was hard to figure out why. SZP GM/Accounting/Payroll Report/SZ Party Payroll Report - 201807.xls - Could not download “SZ Party Payroll Report - 201807.xls”. Hazel lets you change the folder with the “ Relocate Folder…” option… Hazel change of folder destination SZP GM/Accounting/Canceled Platinum Business MasterCard 2017-2019/hsbc-6.pdf - Could not download “hsbc-6.pdf”. WARNING This change all my rules to use the new folder and then started to move all my pdfs that were stuck in my downloads folder since my migration to my M1 Mac. Now that Hazel had copied my PDFs I thought the next step was going to be to upload them to transmit. Just to be careful I used the “Simulate” command in Transmit to make sure that the upload was going to work? I got some confusing results as shown in this screenshot. The files that Transmit considered to be changed were not just the PDFs that hazel filed. This si where I got gun shy to complete the upload and have published this blog post to send to Panic to see if they have any advice. Panic has a video about how to set up a regular sync using automator. ![]() Tagged big sur, m1, macOS Automating changes to Display arrangements on macOS I saw a link to the program Insync which claims to be able to replace Google Drive file stream but I have not tried it. When I found some old CDs from college I tried to read them in Mac OS X Catalina and was shown an error message. ![]()
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