I am using an external USB for time machine on my '16 MacBook Pro and had not backed up for a while. While connecting the drive I put it down on the top of the laptop and then felt that the closure magnet had grabbed it. I pulled it off and saw that the disk was not mounted. Disk Utility told me it could not repair the disk. On my '09 classic Mac Pro Disk Utility was also unable to fix the drive and file with exit code 8. Disk Warrior 5.2 started to fix it but seems inert after about 10 minutes of "Directory is currently being rebuilt." It seems like the format and erase commands in Disk Utility will function but I may have some good photos on the disk and would rather try to recover the data. Any help appreciated.
Edit: Disk Warrior 5.2 is actually advancing through it's sequence, albeit glacially slowly. It was on 5 of 10 (gathering directory information) last time I checked and is now on 9 of 10 (comparing directories). It's only a 500GB drive and the program is usually long finished so I'm wondering what's up. Great utility! I've always relied on it and it has never let me down.
Disk Warrior took a long time but it did repair the disk. Things OK now. Must have been directory corruption.
Edit: Disk Warrior 5.2 is actually advancing through it's sequence, albeit glacially slowly. It was on 5 of 10 (gathering directory information) last time I checked and is now on 9 of 10 (comparing directories). It's only a 500GB drive and the program is usually long finished so I'm wondering what's up. Great utility! I've always relied on it and it has never let me down.
Disk Warrior took a long time but it did repair the disk. Things OK now. Must have been directory corruption.
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