Perhaps they had people complaining that they could see the Mac drive in Boot Camp but not copy to it, so they simply took it away entirely. This might explain why they apparently haven't bothered to create a Windows driver yet: because they simply don't want to. I'm a bit worried though, because I have a feeling that Apple removed the HFS+ driver from Boot Camp even before they switched to APFS. It's a degradation to the experience of using Windows on Mac that it's not there, and Boot Camp is one of the biggest draw-cards to Mac hardware for me: you get 2 major platforms including a genuine Unix derivative, on the same machine. I had hoped that in the 2 or 3 years since announcing/releasing APFS that Apple, or someone else, would have a (free) driver by now.Ĭertainly I'd like to see the previous read-only functionality return to Boot Camp. Believe me when I say that I'm not exactly rolling in dollarydoos after this expensive Mac purchase. I'm not prepared to spend that on something that Apple should and has provided with Boot Camp previously. Thanks Andy, but that's what I was referring to when I said "expensive paid software". I just want a simple driver that lets me use the native Windows Explorer or Command Prompt to read the Mac partition.ĭoes such a thing exist? If not, I'll certainly be providing feedback, and a request for Apple to make such a driver like they used to have for the previous HFS+ file system and to include it in future Boot Camp installations.
I know there's some (expensive) paid software out there that can do it, but I really don't want to either pay or use third-party file managers to access the drive. I definitely don't want write access to APFS in Windows because I prefer to keep the two systems separate with no capacity to pollute one another. With the sort of work I do, it's very common that I use tools in both Mac and Windows to process and analyse data.Īpple’s default solution of including read-only access in Windows has suited me perfectly in the past.
Not to mention it being much slower using external drives to move large amounts of data compared to the Mac's fast internal SSD alone.
The alternative is having to copy the data to an intermediary drive like a thumb-drive, which is an extra step more annoying and requires me to keep and carry around a thumb drive for this purpose that I didn't previously require. It meant I could do certain work in Mac, and if I needed to work on it further in Windows, I could access the data directly from Mac and copy it to the Windows drive if necessary. This is a feature I greatly appreciated in the past. People were asking this in 2017, so what’s the situation in 2020? Having recently received my 16" MacBook Pro and installed Windows, I was wondering if there is or isn't yet a free driver that lets me see and read from the Mac APFS partition while in Windows.
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