Hi Alan, I don't think your read the DiskWarrior Manual first before using DW from what you mentioned below.
Open DiskWarrior.app - Go to 'Help > DiskWarrior Manual' in the Menu Bar Then when the Manual opens in Preview - Go to File > Export - & export the DiskWarrior Manual.pdf to your Desktop. ----- "What to Look for During Preview When DiskWarrior presents the “preview disk,” you have the opportunity to check and test the disk as it will appear after it is rebuilt. You can run applications, open documents, and see if files and folders that you lost have been recovered. If the original disk was visible on the desktop before you ran DiskWarrior, DiskWarrior will display both the original disk and the preview disk in the DiskWarrior Preview Window. Both of these disks will be locked during the preview, so you will not be able to make any changes to either of them. Both the original disk and the preview disk will appear within the panes of the DiskWarrior Preview Window. DiskWarrior may create special folders at the root level of the disk. You should pay particular attention to the files and folders that DiskWarrior places in these folders. The folder called “Rescued Items” contains files and folders whose enclosing folder could not be found. If any of these files or folders are part of a software package, you may need to create enclosing folders with the correct names and locations after you have rebuilt your disk so that the software that uses these files works correctly, or you may need to reinstall the software package. If DiskWarrior creates a folder titled “Damaged Items,” then this folder contains files that were recovered but may have problems. For instance, these files may have been truncated because blocks were missing from the file, or the existing directory information may have indicated that two files occupied the same block. The DiskWarrior Report created after the rebuild is completed will tell you if two files own the same block (refer to “What to Look for in the DiskWarrior Report” later in this document). If this is the case, then DiskWarrior will separate the two files for you after the directory is replaced. Once the rebuild is complete, you will need to determine which of these files can be salvaged and which has damaged data. At this point in the process, if you discover that there are items missing from the preview disk, use the Find feature of the Preview Window to search for invisible items. Make sure the preview disk is the disk selected in the left pane. In the event that critical items that you wish to recover remain missing during the preview, it is recommended that you do not proceed with the rebuild. Since the directory information for the items that are missing was overwritten or deleted at some point previously, DiskWarrior could not recover these items. You will need to send your disk to a professional recovery service to recover your lost files. While in preview, you should copy as many items from your disk as possible to another hard disk, FireWire disk, USB disk, etc., using the copy feature of the Preview Window. You may need to copy the original files to several disks, depending upon the amount and size of the files on the source and the size of the disks to which you are copying the files. Another option is to copy only the files that you absolutely need, such as those that have changed since your last backup, or only your data files if you are planning to reinstall your system and applications. In either case, it is possible that the Preview Window will not be able to copy all of the files you select. If the Preview Window displays such an error, select “Continue” to continue copying the remainder of the files you selected. When the copy operation is complete, you may want to attempt to copy the skipped files again in case the error is intermittent and the copy operation can be performed for those files. This will minimize the number of items that the recovery service will need to recover for you. What to Look for in the DiskWarrior Report After the rebuild has been completed, DiskWarrior will show you a DiskWarrior Report. When DiskWarrior first displays the DiskWarrior Report, it defaults to showing you a summary of all the problems found and repaired and DiskWarrior’s recommendation to you. However, if you wish to see more detail regarding the problems found and repaired, you can select the Details button for this information." Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > On 24 Nov 2014, at 4:35 pm, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ronni > > Success! > > DiskWarrior.app 4.4 installed OK. Used Target Mode with Firewire to scan the > 2009 iMac. “Directory” was main area of action. On completion, DW asserted > that the old and new directories would be on Desktop and the proposed changes > could be viewed. This did not seem to happen so I accepted DW reconstructed > directory (what other real choice is there!) but saved the log file for > “later perusal”. A few exceptions were noted with the “Files” test and no > problems with “Hardware”. > > iMac subsequently started up OK. Some “irregularities” noted for future > investigation, including no startup Chime; iTunes certificates invalid; > Dropbox on the menu bar is inactive; Sudoku is “damaged” (but I can download > that again). > > Thanks for your perserverence and help. Disk Warrior certainly fixed things > that Apple Disk Utility couldn’t. > > I’ll send a closing email on the original iMac "failing to start up" thread > to make things tidy in the WAMUG archives. > > Cheers > Alan > > > On 24 Nov 2014, at 2:30 pm, Ronni Brown <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> Alan I've sent you an email offlist Let me know if you want me to send the >> DiskWarrior.app v 4.4 to you please. >> >> Ronni >>
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