But when it comes to seeing your home directory and doing wholesale Finder copies, out of sight is out of mind. Sure, you can put it in the Finder side bar. Then I realized my mistake.Įach update of OS X wipes out a command line setting to show the user’s Library folder. So I booted from yet a different drive (gotta love those Mac Pro drive bays) and started copying every folder/directory in my account from the corrupted boot drive to the scratch drive.Īrmed with the Finder copy backup and a TM machine archive, I felt ready to reformat the boot drive. I keep a 2 TB drive in one of the bays for my iTunes library backup, managed by Data Backup 3, and I also use the remaining 1.5 TB as scratch space, for just such an occasion as this. The nice thing about the Mac Pro is that is has a boatload of drive bays. Second, if for some reason the TM restore failed, I’d be up a Jacobian without a Determinant. First, I had done important work since September 19 that was not in the TM archive. The boot drive still booted, and the error message suggested that my current files were intact, so I decided to do a Finder copy of all file in my account. Yes, even the pros hose up once in awhile. That Mac Pro was the last Mac to get Mountain Lion, and I’d turned off TM on September 19th to do the upgrade. I’d done some important work since then, and so I was starting to get nervous.Īfter some reflection, I realized what happend. However, after checking my Time Machine Preferences, I discovered to my horror, that my last TM backup was September 19th. At first, I didn’t think this was going to be a major problem. Disk Utility recommended that I back up my files and reformat the disk. Unfortunately, it was the kind of error that neither Data Backup 3 nor Apple’s Disk Utility could fix. On October 1st, Data Backup 3 informed me that it found an error on the boot drive that needed to be repaired. However, last Monday night, disaster struck. It’s a great machine for serving up iTunes content, maintaining our photo archives, and many other things that I keep separate from the iMac I use for scouring the Internet and writing articles. Here’s how my own adventure went, and included, free of charge, are a few hard lessons learned. If your Mac’s boot drive becomes badly corrupted and requires a reformat, one way to recover is to do a full restore from Time Machine.
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