The mini is still being shipped, so no huge rush on this but I am a little perplexed, because I had no difficulty before converting drives to APFS, whether internal or external. Note the name and identifier of the external storage drive. In the Terminal window, type diskutil list. Type ‘ terminal ’ and hit Return to launch the Terminal application on your macOS. I have followed the thread at, however it does not seem to work that way. In that case, you can format the external drive on Mac by using Terminal, as described below: Press Command + Space Bar to open Spotlight. I have yet to look at the drive destined for Time Machine, which will remain as Mac OS extended, however I have the same issue in Mojave of not being able to erase and convert this to APFS for SuperDuper. The same option in Mojave was greyed out. I first tried the SSD in disk utility and found no option in Mojave to format as APFS, so I tried on my daughter's MBP running Catalina and there it appeared as an option by right clicking on the drive with a warning that the the drive would not be able to run on an older system, so I left it for the moment. There will be a 1TB SSD for general data, a 1TB USB 3 for SuperDuper and a 2TB USB 3 for Time Machine. I have recently ordered a new Mac mini with the idea of putting the Mac Pro into semi-retirement and I decided to order three new external drives for mini.
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