This does not have to do with USB as a connection method, since it happens when I put the drives in an external thunderbolt box as well.

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Had noticed some hang issues on boot from sleep so ran disk utility and noticed a few of these errors in a single first aid pass: warning: invalid dstream.defaultcryptoid (0x0) for encrypted volume, given apfsfsflags (0x8) No luck on research so I wiped everything again, deleted partitioncontainer and initially created as HFS and then converted to APFS before an install from USB.

The same errors are back in disk utility except now I see about 40 or 50 in a single first aid pass.

Any assistance would be welcome before I just go back to extended journal on this machine.

Thanks.

Bad move: this killed the backup, of course, but worse: After that, I was no longer able to access those two drives.

I can see the drives in the Disk Utility application and from diskutil and fsckapfs on the command line, but I cannot repair the volumes or mount them.

I can add volumes to the container, but not access the container that has my data.

After many hours of working on this, I am giving up until some other clue arises or somebody updates their disk repair utility to be able to address this.

Maybe a future version of Disk Utility, maybe Disk Warrior (cannot deal with apfs yet).

My fault, of course, for adopting a new file system so early, and for converting my external spinning hard drives to apfs so early on.

On the other hand, I feel that Apple might have put apfs out there just a teensy bit half-baked.

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One strange thing that MIGHT be a clue: on bootup, the system asks for the disk encryption password for each of the two external USB drives, and it always asks twice for each one, but does not mount them.

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