Backup up files (or using file recovery software) then erasing the drive works in tricky cases where a self diagnosis or self rescue exceed the time you can spend on errors in hardware or file system integrity.

With APFS and snapshots, each single snapshot can double the time needed to check and eventually, you may just need to have backups (on more than one disk) and be willing to move on and focus on integrity of files, not expecting bomb-proof filesystems.

• https://eclecticlight.co/2021/03/25/time-machine-to-apfs-maintenance-and-repair/
• https://eclecticlight.co/2022/05/22/last-week-on-my-mac-will-disk-utility-ever-work-properly/

Much of the above blog is in perfect alignment with my and several peer’s perspective and while we delight in some of the advances Apple has made, there are some things we’ve certainly lost as complexity marches on in computing systems.

Backup up files (or using file recovery software) then erasing the drive works in tricky cases where a self diagnosis or self rescue exceed the time you can spend on errors in hardware or file system integrity.

With APFS and snapshots, each single snapshot can double the time needed to check and eventually, you may just need to have backups (on more than one disk) and be willing to move on and focus on integrity of files, not expecting bomb-proof filesystems and an fsck that can overcome all errors without data loss.

• https://eclecticlight.co/2021/03/25/time-machine-to-apfs-maintenance-and-repair/
• https://eclecticlight.co/2022/05/22/last-week-on-my-mac-will-disk-utility-ever-work-properly/

Much of the above blog is in perfect alignment with my and several peer’s perspective and while we delight in some of the advances Apple has made, there are some things we’ve certainly lost as complexity marches on in computing systems. Sometimes, you’re going to have to erase a disk to know if it’s faulty or the accounting got messed up in an unrecoverable manner.

Backup up files (or using file recovery software) then erasing the drive works in tricky cases where a self diagnosis or self rescue exceed the time you can spend on errors in hardware or file system integrity.

Backup up files (or using file recovery software) then erasing the drive works in tricky cases where a self diagnosis or self rescue exceed the time you can spend on errors in hardware or file system integrity.

With APFS and snapshots, each single snapshot can double the time needed to check and eventually, you may just need to have backups (on more than one disk) and be willing to move on and focus on integrity of files, not expecting bomb-proof filesystems.

• https://eclecticlight.co/2021/03/25/time-machine-to-apfs-maintenance-and-repair/
• https://eclecticlight.co/2022/05/22/last-week-on-my-mac-will-disk-utility-ever-work-properly/

Much of the above blog is in perfect alignment with my and several peer’s perspective and while we delight in some of the advances Apple has made, there are some things we’ve certainly lost as complexity marches on in computing systems.