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Glassed Silver

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Mar 10, 2007
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Hey guys,

my backup drive that I use Time Machine with had been acting up lately, not allowing me to complete backups anymore, but since I didn't do much on my Mac recently I never quite thought much of it, thinking it was a bug in my GM of OS X El Capitan.
Anyhow, the drive doesn't mount anymore, the drive does spin up though.

The problem I have is that I used the drive for some files temporarily while waiting for a new drive, files that happened to pile up and my Time Machine drive was the only drive with free capacity.

Long story short:
I need to know which files I actually put on there, beyond the backups of course, which can easily be "restored" by simply running Time Machine on a new backup drive.
Depending on my luck I'd of course love to restore those files.


Any ideas beyond sending it in for drive repair? (not an option)

Glassed Silver:mac
 
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