Thanks Joe, sadly, I don't understand most of that so I'm discombobulated.. dealing with the new OS glitches Apple has wrought upon Clone software. may post some screenshots here soon....

I know I did some partition few years back on the desktop mac os for data, which I don't use anymore.. Seems Catalina does not like data on the boot Mac HD? so moved it off.

But does Catalina put word data in volumes, or I must have done that? cause see APFS... YEAH, does say word data.. that's not for the partition I made for my data is what saying?

Ah..never heard of APFS until I made all of my drives that for super duper. Still battling this over days... lot faiures / glitches.

Last edited by kevs; 07/09/20 10:42 PM.