On Mar 9, 2011, at 6:58 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
> > On Mar 9, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Dan Shoop wrote: > >> >> On Mar 6, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: >> >>> Sometimes you can't repair the disk if you're booted from it. Here are a >>> couple things to try. >>> >>> 1. Backup the data portion of the drive using Finder Copy >> >> This is never an advisable way of backing up files. Many types of files are >> invisible and many types of files the Finder just is programmed not to >> display. Copying an entire folder should copy any invisible files contained >> within it but there's no assurance when viewing through the Finder that >> you're ever grabbing everything. >> > > Sure it is . . .I was talking about data files which aren't invisible at all. > From the description of the issues it sounds like directory damage; hence my > recommendation to either try DiskWarrior to repair the directory or else copy > the data elsewhere, reformat the data drive/partition, and copy the data back. It is possible to use Diskwarrior non-destructively where it maintains a repaired directory in memory, and mounts a disk image of the drive contents based on that repaired directory, without committing the new directory to the disk. So, a read-only repair if you will. Worth a shot if there is concern. Chris Murphy_______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
