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how to recover file from usb after disk utility repair "first aid" option
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1665116"><p>From the log it appears that someone answered some questions about the drive which gave the repair process authority to destroy the folders. Note that someone or some thing answered "Yes' to the system's assessment that the folders were NOT folders, so DU "fixed" the problem. Part of the fix was to release the sectors in the folder, meaning it marked as unused the sectors occupied by the photos. Now, every time you mount that drive in OS X it sees all that space as free and starts to write hidden files to it that OS X uses to track it, so some of those pictures may be overwritten already. Stop mounting that drive in OS X immediately to keep from making it worse. The only way I can think of to try to repair the drive is to go to a Windows machine and use a reputable disk recovery software package there. Even that may be dicey as disk utility has done a lot of reconstruction on the drive. If she's unable to do that, then one of the disk recovery services may be able to recover it, but they are very, very expensive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1665116"] From the log it appears that someone answered some questions about the drive which gave the repair process authority to destroy the folders. Note that someone or some thing answered "Yes' to the system's assessment that the folders were NOT folders, so DU "fixed" the problem. Part of the fix was to release the sectors in the folder, meaning it marked as unused the sectors occupied by the photos. Now, every time you mount that drive in OS X it sees all that space as free and starts to write hidden files to it that OS X uses to track it, so some of those pictures may be overwritten already. Stop mounting that drive in OS X immediately to keep from making it worse. The only way I can think of to try to repair the drive is to go to a Windows machine and use a reputable disk recovery software package there. Even that may be dicey as disk utility has done a lot of reconstruction on the drive. If she's unable to do that, then one of the disk recovery services may be able to recover it, but they are very, very expensive. [/QUOTE]
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