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"How Do I Create Multiple MacOS Volumes or Partitions on an SSD or Hard Drive with APFS?"

Generally, when you have an SSD or hard drive formatted with the new Apple File System (APFS), you only want a single partition on it. You can then create multiple "volumes" within that partition. These volumes act just like partitions, except they share a single partition's space among themselves as needed. This avoids the kind of wasted space you always get with multiple drive partitions and their rigid size allocations. The problem comes when you want to place more than one copy of a recent MacOS version on the drive -- say, both High Sierra and Mojave, or even duplicates of either one for testing or easy backup. An APFS volume with MacOS installed is accompanied in that same partition by three hidden, associated volumes, including the Recovery volume. Place another MacOS volume in that partition, and your system and utilities can become confused. So, in this case, you do have to partition the drive instead of adding volumes. But on trying to, you may run into quir

"What Do I Do Since My Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Failed to Update on my Mac?"

Adobe installers and updaters and authorization schemes have always been the pits, and I recently had another major run-in with them. I'd read about another round of updates for the Creative Cloud apps, and I fired up the CC desktop app to collect them. What I got instead was the desktop app itself trying and failing to update itself, with this message: "Creative Cloud desktop failed to update (Error code: 1001)." There was a Cancel button, which led to another screen allowing me to retry the installation or quit. So, I tried again . . . and again . . . and again. Each time I got the same error message, and always at the 43% mark. And unfortunately, the "install or quit" screen gave no other option. In other words, there was no way to bypass the desktop update and go on to updating the other apps. If I couldn't update the desktop, I couldn't update anything. Following Adobe's instructions, I then uninstalled the desktop app and reinstalled with