![]() Or you can make the kind of mistake that results in deleted folders or erased disks. ![]() Media, such as hard drives, eventually fails. I’ve said it countless times: it’s not a question of if you will lose data, but when. Disc Warrior 6.0 is *still* unavailable! To you guys who tout the sturdiness of APFS, let me say this: I’m glad for you that you’ve been lucky so far.Written by Mel // J// Mac Apps // Comments Off on DiskWarrior 5 review: The most essential drive maintenance and repair tool gets even better My brand new MacBook Pro M1 corrupted an APFS drive that’s still fairly new and never gave me problems on my intel Mac. I had the drive plugged in my new MacBook and all of a sudden I got a message saying the drive “kept disconnecting”, which I thought was strange, since that didn’t seem to be the case. When I checked It, I noticed several folders were missing. I then ran “First Aid“ on it which I deeply regret. Beforehand the drive was mountable and I just didn’t realize the severity of the damage. After “First Aid”, which ran for a few minutes before quitting and telling me it failed, and recommending I “backup the drive”, it no longer mounts, and its name even has disappeared. I wish First Aid would recommend I backup the drive before wrecking it. I‘m great with backups of my SSD, but this was a fairly new drive where I’d recently put lots of personal files that I hadn‘t yet backed up anywhere else… The drive was partitioned into 2 volumes, APFS and HFS+ for time machine. If this was an HFS+ volume, I bet first aid could’ve fixed it.įirst aid did report errors with it but didn’t fail the process and in any case I had no problems with that partition. I ‘m upgrading my old license of TechToolPro after reading you guys here, and will try that. It’s like the drive just slipped away from me for no reason. Although of course I’ll take it if it’s all I can get… I also don’t want the mess of recovery: I spend time organizing my media and video footage to keep all accessible and easy to locate: getting a thousand random files would be a nightmare. I still remember Disk Warrior, many years ago, doing what no other piece of software could. But this open-endedness and incapacity to again and again meet their promises and projections has turned a once reliable brand into the last thing one would want to have to rely on…ĭiskWarrior 5.3 to rebuild the directory of HFS+ as native application on ARM-based Apple Silicon Macs was announced to be released soon on November 2020. And then again saying that it was in testing phase on January 2021. It does not make sense that it has not been released yet, except if key engineers have left Alsoft for some reason (coronavirus? underpaid? accident? passed away?). The main one is Rusty Little (Project Manager). Someone has some insider information? Lives nearby and can check if Rusty Little still works at Alsoft?ĭiskWarrior 6 is other beast, since it should rebuild the directory of APFS disks, which depends on Apple releasing all required documentation and API. So, maybe we see it, or maybe it will be never released. Reverse engineering does not work here, because it could have catastrophic consequences. ![]() Either Apple discloses all information and API, or there is no way to make a reliable rebuild of APFS disks. But DiskWarrior 5.3 should have been released many months ago, as said above.Ĭonclusion: if DiskWarrior 5.3 is not released, much less DiskWarrior 6.Using DiskWarrior 5.2 while started (booted) from High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina or Big Sur. What you need to know ( Click here for the summary)ġ) Apple File System (APFS) disks (typically a macOS 10.14 Mojave, 10.15 Catalina or 11.0 Big Sur Startup Disk) are recognized but ARE NOT able to be rebuilt by DiskWarrior 5.2. #Alsoft diskwarrior 5 for mac how to#Ĭlick here to learn how to identify an APFS disk.Ģ) M1 (ARM) equipped Macs are NOT currently supported. See our Big Sur Compatibility Page.ģ) Click here to join the Mailing List to be notified of progress regarding Apple File System (APFS) support, M1 (ARM) support, and updates to DiskWarrior.Ĥ) Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) disks can be rebuilt as before, when rebuilding from an Intel Mac.ĥ) The Startup Disk of Macs are automatically converted from Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) to Apple File System (APFS) when installing or upgrading to macOS 10.14 Mojave, macOS 10.15 Catalina or macOS 11.0 Big Sur. Only internal SSD drives are converted to APFS by macOS 10.13 High Sierra.Ħ) External drives are not automatically converted to Apple File System (APFS).
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