Finding corrupt files

[Kyle M]

Computer Info:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP51.007E.B05
SMC Version (system): 1.41f2

Background Info:
A year into ownership of my MBP I had a hard drive failure (covered under apple care). I had backups of the drive, but they were a couple months old and I wanted to try and recover the missing months. Apple let me keep my old drive which I put into an enclosure and was able to mount. I used Data Rescue 3 and performed a deep scan of the failed drive. I was able to recover most of the data. Data Rescue did mark some files in red (which I believe means that it was unable to completely recover) and unfortunately I chose to bring some of those files over to the new drive (MISTAKE). Some of the locations I remember these files were in my itunes, iphoto, and imovie libraries.

Current Day:
My MBP has been actin un-Macish and I am tired of it. I want to start with a clean system and only bring in known clean information. I just am unable to find an app that will scan my drive and mark corrupted files. So that is the question, how can I scan my current info and find out what files are corrupted? I know of some files, like in iphoto I have pictures that will not open. But those are only small examples of known files, there are many others out there that I can not take the time to look through.

Please let me know what you think I should do, thanks in advance

 

[chscag]

Once you brought over those corrupted files that were marked by Data Rescue 3, you created a lot of work for yourself. One thing you can try is to boot your machine from an external hard drive and use Data Rescue 3 from the external drive to scan your good drive. I'm not sure how that will work and it may be tedious. Otherwise you may be left with a trial and error type of hunting for the corrupted files. You should delete those files that you know are corrupt before starting the scan.

 

[jennifer155]

Mac data recovery

Well...........don't worry. Mac corruption is a common issue these days. Actually you need a recovery tool to resolve the corruption issue of Mac operating system and for this, you can use Mac data recovery software which quickly resolve the corruption issue of mac operating system and also recover all your deleted or lost photos. Not only this, with the help of this software, you will also become able to open any of your mac files.

Actually, I have also suffered with this problem so I am sure that it will also solve your problem completely.

 

[Dysfunction]

As far as I'm aware, data corruption is not really a 'common issue'. In general, I see this with either failing drives or when someone fails to unmount an external drive before yanking the cable.

I agree with chscag, although I'd almost be tempted to just wipe the drive and restore from a known good backup. Given the choice between data loss and not knowing what is good or bad data, I'll take the data loss case any day.