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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1885263" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>I'd start up in Recovery Mode and run Disk Utilities/First Aid on both your external and internal hard drives:</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314[/URL]</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210898[/URL]</p><p></p><p>If the above does not find and repair anything, andif your Mac is old enough that this software will still run, consider purchasing:</p><p></p><p>DiskWarrior ($129)</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.alsoft.com/[/URL]</p><p>(Will not work on disks formatted as APFS, so it won't work on Macs running Mojave or later or earlier disks purposely formatted as APFS.)</p><p>(There is no equivalent to this product for APFS drives.)</p><p></p><p>You can also download this software and see what it has to say about the health of your external hard drive:</p><p></p><p>DriveDX (free demo) </p><p><a href="http://binaryfruit.com/drivedx" target="_blank">DriveDx - the most advanced drive health diagnostics and monitoring utility</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1885263, member: 190607"] I'd start up in Recovery Mode and run Disk Utilities/First Aid on both your external and internal hard drives: [URL unfurl="true"]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210898[/URL] If the above does not find and repair anything, andif your Mac is old enough that this software will still run, consider purchasing: DiskWarrior ($129) [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.alsoft.com/[/URL] (Will not work on disks formatted as APFS, so it won't work on Macs running Mojave or later or earlier disks purposely formatted as APFS.) (There is no equivalent to this product for APFS drives.) You can also download this software and see what it has to say about the health of your external hard drive: DriveDX (free demo) [URL="http://binaryfruit.com/drivedx"]DriveDx - the most advanced drive health diagnostics and monitoring utility[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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