![]() ![]() If the external drives are the only primary targets at this point, then substantially changes the requirements. If your recovery drive fails also how do you repair or make another?Īnyone who has access to an older mac that runs 10.15 and a DiskWarrior Recovery boot usb drive can take external disks and just hook them to it. If they got 5.3 running on macOS 11 the tool couldn't repair the drive it was running on. Primarily, all can do is point at older drives and drive that deliberately avoid the default paths to putting an APFS on a drive. ![]() Even on macOS Intel, the boot, system drive isn't going to be covered. ( and the tool could not really do much to fix that sealed drive anyway even if had something to understand AFPS fundamentals ). MacOS 11 introduced the 'sealed system volume' so the OS doesn't run on anything but AFPS. At this point, macOS 11 is only going to critical security updates. Seems like a better allocation of effort would have been to get 5.3 onto the Intel macOS 11 sooner rather than later. Not sure why M1 systems were added to the feature list. Users with new Macs who hook up a 'blank' drive will be walked through a process to create a AFPS Time Machine drive. Mainly effective upon just older external drives that were in HFS+. The M1 version wouldn't be able to do much with the default internal drive in a Mac. That is substantively different task that what the HFS catalog tracked. It would have to restore all of the snapshots present and versions of those files/metadata also to be a completely accurate rebuild. "rebuild the catalog" would be not just restore the lead version of the file system. (and if the version stamp got blown up in the damage. So the 'mess' they'd be trying to clean up would have different structures to deal with depending upon the version. Each version has a bootstrap code that you could load as get started with the file system. ![]() The other problem was that APFS was not a static, completely finished file system. ) you aren't going to find 3rd party utilities like Diskwarrior there. If you go to other copy-on-write file systems ( ZFS, etc. (APFS is not so diligent about protecting users' file contents, but "data about how the data is organized" is protected.) APFS also fragments files as it does copy on write. APFS does check sums on the metadata so if it is really blow away you are in sad shape. If the metadata really has gotten damaged so bad fsck can't fit it. The preview of the restored files and the directory is very limited-it just shows a list of files, and it’s not possible to analyze if they are broken or not.Documentation telling you that it is a muich harder tasks isn't really going to make the task easier. DiskWarrior also doesn’t do a good job when it comes to explaining some of its options, forcing you to read the manual. The program doesn’t have a close button, so you have to close it from the menu or dock. The automatic disk monitoring module is very old and does not support many modern drives, including those found inside modern Macs with M1 and T2 chips. The program supports only one method of scanning: the repair of HFS and HFS+ directories.ĭisk monitoring. The program doesn't work as a full-featured data recovery software - it can't recover deleted/lost/formatted data. DiskWarrior doesn’t support automatic updates, so each and every update must be downloaded and installed manually. The application doesn’t officially support macOS Monterey, but we were able to get it to work just fine on the latest version of Apple’s operating system. The developers of DiskWarrior don’t offer a free trial version, so there’s no way for customers to test the software for free. ![]() Macs with the new M1 processor are not supported by the latest version of Disk Warrior. On the official website, the developers have been promising a major new update with support for APFS for more than 2 years now, but nobody knows when it will arrive. Since then, not a single update has been released. That’s a huge downside considering that Apple has been using APFS as its default file system for some time now.ĭevelopment. DiskWarrior supports only HFS and HFS+ drives. On startup, the application always minimizes all other open windows for some reason, which can be quite annoying when you have multiple other windows opened.įile system support. ![]()
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