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Which disks get converted by Catalina?

Q Would my iMac with an internal Fusion Drive upgrade fully to Catalina, and what would happen with the Time Machine backups on its external hard disk: would those be converted to Apple’s new file system?

by CLIFFORD MOISEY

A When you upgrade any Mac with an Apple Fusion Drive to Mojave or Catalina, that drive is automatically converted to Apple’s new APFS file system. You don’t have any choice, and both versions of macOS require to

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