A few months ago in TidBITS I compared the various disk repair programs then available for Mac OS X: Norton Utilities 8.0 ($100), DiskWarrior 3.0 ($80), Drive 10 1.1.4 ($70), Disk Guardian 2.2 ($70), ...

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Sometimes I long for the good old days when a person would bring me a broken Mac, I would run any disk repair utility and, more than 99 per cent of the time, the Mac would performed like new again and ...

For the most part, Macs don’t crash as much as other computers. One reason for that is that the Mac doesn’t have to contend with an unpredictable mix of hardware and software: OS X is highly optimised ...

I have a corrupted external thumb drive with some data I would prefer not to lose. Yes, backups backups backups. My mac is continually backed up via BackBlaze & TimeMachine. But this little drive is ...

If a hard drive shows 0 used space and 0 free space despite having a lot of free space, you cannot store files on it. This problem usually occurs if your hard drive is corrupted or your system is ...

OS X’s Disk Utility—which enables you to format, partition, repair, and perform other kinds of maintenance on disks (including SSDs, flash drives, and disk images)—is good for what it does. Yet for ...

Repair Disk isn’t the first option you should choose if your Mac is ailing, but it is helpful when (for example): Performance has degraded Data is missing You are experiencing degraded system ...

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