It seems like I’ve used up all space on my MBP, and when I rebooted it it became corrupted/inoperable (when I go into disk utilities, Macintosh HD is “unmounted”, and when I press “mount”, nothing happens. On internet recovery, the same thing gives me “Alert: couldn’t mount disk”. Clicking “Repair” gives me “Alert: Partition map repair failed while adjusting structures to fit current whole disk size.”) I was wondering if it’s possible to recover any data from it? I have some sensitive documents that haven’t backed up due to poor internet connection. On disk utility it says the drive could not be mounted and I can’t find the drive via the terminal. Thank you!

I take pictures with Microsoft Lens every day, in "DOCUMENTS" mode. Over time, it happened quite a few times that I pressed the menu item "ACTIONS" or swiped to the right to get there, without ever wanting to get there at all (I did not even know what it is for, only later I understood that it is for example for text extraction), which then shows: > Switching to Actions mode will discard current images > > - Discard all media > > - Cancel I was always careful to press "Cancel" here, but today, I took pictures while doing two other things at the same time for the picture, and when I saw the menu again, I was in a haste not to hit the wrong button now while holding two other things and hit the "Cancel" button quickly, but touched the "Discard all media" by some millimeter and now got all of my images discarded = deleted. I uploaded my images over time as you cannot take more than 100 pictures, so that I lost only my session of 50 images while the rest is uploaded. But losing those is already a cost of working time and the "My Scans" folder of the app is empty now as well, which may have been needed once in a while to see the uploaded images without entering the cloud. Now I wonder whether there is a way get back the discarded images. Perhaps, they are still saved somewhere in the iPhone Fotos app. The Microsoft Lens App's images are not saved in the Images folder of the iPhone, therefore they seem to be saved inside the app. Can I redact the deletion of images inside the Microsoft Lens App? Or is there a way to recover them from outside the app?

I have an external drive I haven't accessed recently (a year ago? Perhaps longer? Certainly within the last three years). This is a bare 3.0 TB Western Digital drive (HDD/platters) I put into a Wavlink USB 3.0 HDD Docking station. The drive spins up and seems OK (no clicking or other sounds like the arm is having trouble accessing blocks). I get a message from macOS that this drive is unreadable. Looking at it from within Disk Utility I see the name of the drive, its size and that it is a CoreStorage Logical Volume • Mac OS Extended (Encrypted). I have accessed it in the past from my MacBook but thought perhaps since I have upgraded it to Sequoia that the newer OS doesn't read the older formatting. I have an older iMac running macOS Ventura 13.7.1 which I thought would have no problem reading it if the issue is Sequoia. The iMac did recognize it is an encrypted volume and accepted the password to decrypt the volume. But again I get the message the drive is unreadable and won't mount. Has this drive become corrupted due to non-use? Or has the older formatting scheme of plastered drives become obsolete with the macOS? I used to do drive recovery decades ago but my skills are outdated and I don't even know what recovery software is currently used (anyone remember when Norton worked on a Mac?)

I need to recover the data from my friend's iPhone 11 Pro Max 256GB. She used it until it was full, ignored all the friendly pop-up warnings to free up her storage, ignored the sudden shutdowns that happened a couple of times , and used it until it got stuck permanently in a boot loop at the white Apple logo. She needs to recover her photos (she doesn't have a backup anywhere), but when trying to restore the device using iTunes, 3uTools, or 沙漏 (Shalou) in update mode (as recommended by Apple Support), it gives error 1110. It fails at the "Checking Filesystem" step (possibly because the storage is too full????), and throws error 1110. We've tried restoring both iOS 18 and 17.7, but the error persists. We've also used the specific restore mode in 沙漏 and 3uTools for fixing error 1110 while preserving user data, but still no luck. Is there any way to extract the photos from the full, unbootable phone? If we can recover the photos, we are fine with performing a full DFU restore afterward to reset the device, but the priority is to recover the photos, as they are very important and weren't backed up beforehand.

Hopefully this will serve as a more focused and generalisable version of [this question](https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/387121/175188) and [this question](https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/399027/175188) . - This isn't my system photos library so the photos aren't in iCloud. - About half the 12,620 photos in the library fail to export (Unknown error: -1), can't be edited (Cannot Start Editing: Photos can't load edits for this image.) and have no corresponding file in the Originals subfolders within the .photoslibrary package. - The photos aren't thumbnails, or at least Get Info reports full resolutions. - Like other people who've asked for help for this problem, the problem photos seem to fit a date range. In my case this is from the start of 2011 to about mid-way through 2015. - The same issues occur with my oldest Time Machine backup of the library so restoring from Time Machine isn't an option. - I tend to always keep my media libraries consolidated and, if the file creation date is reliable, I created the library in 2021. So it's unlikely the problem photos were simply never copied to the library in the first place and subsequently lost their references. I might be able to recover some or all of the originals from the people who took them. But, needless to say, I'm looking for a technical solution here. **Edit**: Merging duplicates brought the total number of photos down to about 6,500, but unfortunately nearly 80% of those are "problem photos".

I had an external disk with two volumes: - Volume A was formatted as NTFS which had videos/photos backed up - Volume B was Mac Extended Journaled - which was used for Mac Time Machine backup. However, Time Machine wasn't working, so I formatted/erased Volume B - not sure what exactly happened, but the NTFS volume was gone too, and now there is just the Mac volume. The NTFS volume with video/photo backup is gone. Is there a way I can get back at least some of the data from that NTFS volume? It had years of backup of videos/photos. Note: - Original HDD was 1 TB with 2 volumes of 500GB - Now there's just one Mac formatted volume that covers whole HDD of 1 TB Any help would be appreciated.

This time last Christmas my fusion hard drive stopped working. It had been loud and the back of the iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) was burned. After eventually installing the macOS onto the 121.3 GB hard drive. I see plenty of threads stating to reset my hard drives back into one, but I have tried that unsuccesfuly and also I wish to get my files back. I understand the mechanical failure however I would like to try everything before giving up on this. I have see videos on how to get the hd out of the iMac and connect this to another computer, also using another iMac and thunderbolt cable to locate the files, all the way to software apps that can do deep dives. My question is, if the mac can't see the fusion drive anymore then nothing can and surely it's a mechanical failure and the only possible fix would be to take out the hard drive and hope its a pin or connection issue. I'd much prefer to do this in the sofware, however. Please see below and ignore the Seagate external hard drive (which is also coincidentally 2Tb and caused me much initial confusion). I'm still missing the fusion hd. If it's a total lost cause I guess I'll just try and reset them or give up on my 2Tb of hard space. Many thanks for any assistance.

I have accidentally deleted some files on my Mac OS X Mavericks. Actually, I was trying to burn an .img file to my flash drive which was located at **/dev/disk1** (at the same time I had connected a NTFS External Hard disk to my Mac). So I used **dd command** to flash these files and don't know how, but the flash drive was now located at **/dev/disk2** and at **disk1** the hard disk was mounted. So I accidentally flashed that .img file to my hard disk and lost around 100gb of data. Now I scanned my hard disk with Disk Drill v1 Enterprise and found some lost partitions (there are around 5 partitions around 10mb each). When I deep scan the hard disk with Disk Drill, It displays all the files but with lost file name and directory structure. But I badly need that. So guys please help me to recover these files properly based on its file structure (Like Recuva do in Windows). Also recommend me some kind of utility (free preferred) that can recover my files while keeping original directory structure.

(EDITED for specificity) When I use terminal in recovery mode (on a MacBook Pro with Apple silicon) a lot of bash commands seem to be missing and give me "command not found" errors when I try to run them. This goes for less basic commands like systemsetup that problem aren't standard bash, but also some really core ones like sudo and man and du (but not df). What causes this? I looked up another question (https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/282299/sudo-command-not-found) that suggested maybe there was an issue with my PATH, but the steps that were suggested to fix it didn't change anything:

-bash-3.2# /usr/bin/nano ~/.bash_profile
-bash: /usr/bin/nano: No such file or directory
-bash-3.2# /bin/cat /etc/paths
cat: /etc/paths: No such file or directory
-bash-3.2# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
-bash-3.2# sudo echo test
-bash: sudo: command not found

Is recovery mode running a *super* stripped down bash that doesn't recognize these commands? Or does this have to do with the way my system was damaged somehow? Or something else?

I have an iPad Mini, first generation, model is A1432. It is running 9.3.5 (13G36). I decided to copy all my media from the device as none of it was backed up to iCloud/Google. I believe that some of the photos are corrupted somehow. When I open the default photos app and look at the "Camera Roll" it shows all the photos on the device. About 30% of the photos are corrupted, somewhat randomly distributed amongst all the photos, slightly more of the older ones. The thumbnails of the corrupted photos are all grey. They appear as either portrait or landscape, suggesting the metadata is intact. Things I have tried: - Media sync with iTunes: this only copies the photos which aren't corrupted. iTunes doesn't seem to be able to see the corrupted images - Create an iCloud account and sync that. Same outcome as above. - Plug the device into a Linux machine: the contents of the DCIM directory are visible as expected. All files are shown along with expected file types (JPG/MOV) and file sizes. This seems to confirm the metadata for the corrupted files is intact. If I attempt to copy one of the corrupted images I get the following error message: There was an error copying the file into "/path/to/folder". If I click "Show more details" then I see the message Error getting file: -1: Unspecified error. Copying any of the non-corrupted images works fine. - Syncing the content of the DCIM folder using the iFuse command line app. I don't remember exactly, it either bombed out or just copied the non-corrupted images. - Copying the files into a zip file on the device in order to copy the files to another device. I don't remember exactly what happened here either but putting the corrupted files into an archive file failed with an error message as well. Because the device is old I have limited options as to which apps I could install to fix the files locally. There are a number of "Photo recovery" apps on the App Store. None of them seem to do cater to my use case. I would like to copy the corrupted files to another device so that copies exist somewhere else and I can attempt to fix them myself with various software tools. Failing that I am looking for suggestions for an app that can repair the images on the device. I'd like to avoid visiting a physical Apple store if possible.

I’m helping someone who has deleted their Time Machine backup by accident. All that is contained within the sparsebundle are .incomplete and .previous folders. I would like to recover as much data as possible so I need a way to combine all the changes from each folder essentially. Also I may first attempt to recover the deleted files with software, does anyone have preferences between R-Studio, UFS, or another software? And would scanning for deleted files work the same within a sparsebundle? Thanks!

imac 2017 mojave suddenly got stuck at boot screen. apple logo with boot progress bar reaches to 100% but then gets stuck there and computer never actually boots. I need to recover some data before I actually go ahead and reinstall the OS completely. primary data that I need to extract is the bookmarks and passwords from the chrome browser. booting in recovery mode is successful. I do have access to another mac to clone (if that is even possible). Q1: [primary objective] can I connect two macs, boot the problem machine in target disk mode, and then clone the OS disk completely to the a disk in the healthy mac, and then boot the healthy mac from that cloned OS? Q2: [alternate] if nothing else works, how can I extract only chrome browser data and get passwords + bookmarks extracted from that data?

I ended up having exactly the problem described here : I was highlighting and taking notes on a PDF file with macOS 10.14 Apple Preview and I realised only yesterday after finishing studying a university pdf that the last version of the file has only saved the highlighting of the last chapter of the pdf. The thing is that in Time Machine previous file saves actually do have previous notes and highlighting, it is just that every file save only has a portion of around 50~70 pages of saved edits, while previous edits disappear and the file looks like as if I started highlighting from page 50, and then from page 100 and so on... I could theorically save duplicates of each edited version and then remove “cleaned up” pages to recover with the ones from a previously saved version, but my philosophy is that we use computers to help us, not to help the computer, is there any way to do that edit-recovery automatically? Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening again? It’s the first time I can’t trust preview to save my notes.

I deleted windows 10 VM from my MacBook two days ago. It was pretty large in size, around 50 Gigs, and I deleted to free up some storage. Before deleting, I copied all of my data, and I forgot to copy some important data, which was stored in "Sticky Notes". :( It was in my trash for about 4 days, and I emptied trash two days ago. From last two days, I have been trying different tools, but no luck so far. I have **tried**: - RecoverIt - Aiseesoft Mac Data Recovery - iSkysoft Data Recovery - DiskDrill - Easeus Data Recovery - Stellar Data Recovery I tried free / basic / trial versions of those software's. As most of them allows to view files in free version. RecoverIt showed the VM files in first run, but when I purchased the software, it did not show those files. :( **Q.** Is there any possibility to recover in this case? **Additional info:** - VM was stored on second drive of SSD (partition) - Drive has password encryption enabled - It's 1.5 TB in size (entire drive scanning is too slow, DiskDrill took around 9 hours to scan the drive)

I Had a word document which I'm unsure where it was stored. It said my desktop but I believe it was also in my icloud somewhere. I saved my work and then emailed it to myself, after emailing the work I turned off the icloud which in turn deleted everything on my desktop. All I have is a textedit file whenever I attempt to click the document. I'm unsure on whether the work is completely gone or still able to be recovered. Time machine was not activated due to the macbook being new. Microsoft word didn't appear to do any backups or recover old files, there's nothing. It does show the file in recent but will not open or allow recovery. I have checked my icloud in the advanced section to try and recover files.. there is nothing there. In textedit I have tried to the 'revert' method which did not work. I've followed multiple youtube tutorials and website searches to see if I can recover the work and still can't it's all dead ends. Would a piece of software be able to take the short code from textedit and aid my recovery or is the work completely lost? This work has a deadline so I need to know whether it's worth trying to save or just restart. Thanks in advance

I accidentally dropped my iPhone and part of the screen wasn't functioning. So I entered the incorrect passcode several times (Maybe around 10) and the phone got disabled. Now, I have replaced the screen but my data is lost. I have some very sentimental pictures taken from this phone which is not backed. How can I recover these pictures ? I used Dr.Fone and PhoneRescue, it recovered almost all the pictures except for the ones taken on the day I dropped the phone. I am not able to recover these images. Can someone please help me out?

About 4 days earlier I deleted my important c++ files along with other files on the desktop by mistake without even realizing and figured it out later. I'm unable to find .cpp files in the deepscan of recovery softwares like iSkysoft data recovery. How can I recover them? It's urgent. - Device : Macbook Air 2015 - OS : High Sierra 10.13 - Backups : none

Before you start lecturing me on making backups, I'm happy no announce that 90% of my data is backed up. I did exclude some non-essential folders because my internet is garbage. Losing these are an inconvenience at most. I have not opened my MacBook yet, still looking at what my options are before I start something I will regret. I simply want to connect the old SSD to a new MacBook once to copy some files. I have no interest in keeping the SSD after that. I'm a bit lost because browsing google is mainly providing me with recovery services (a bit overkill? SSD should be intact) and products intended for converting the SSD into some kind of permanent external drive, but I'm only interested in a single copy. Fancy casings are not needed. It has also come to my attention that regular SSD adapters might not work because apple used a proprietary design. Is this true? I don't have the old MacBook with me so I'm not 100% sure what model it is. I think it's a 2015 MacBook Pro (no touch bar). What type of connector do I need? I'm sorry if this is a bit vague. Thank you in advance.

I have an iMac running High Sierra. I created a spreadsheet in Numbers a couple of months ago. I have been updating it a few times each week. Last edit was this month a couple of times. The Numbers file was stored in a folder named finance. When I tried to edit it yesterday, Saturday, I couldn't find the file nor the folder. I tried searching for the file and found a couple of files with the same name but they were older copies. I started the Numbers app and tried the "open recent" option in the file menu. I again found a couple of files with the correct name but they were the older files mentioned earlier. What could have happened to the file and folder? I suppose I may have accidently deleted them. Is there any way to tell? If I deleted them do I need a 3rd party app to try and recover them?

My MacBook Pro from ca. 2011-2013 or something kind of "crashed" - the computer's file system was ruined - when I did a manual forced shutdown because the Notes app was not responding. When I turned it back on again repeatedly, it was in MacOS Recovery Mode and I sent it in to a computer expert who's having a look at it. He's been able to save/restore many documents - Pages documents, sound files, pictures and videos etc - and also says that the data isn't gone, it's just like scrambled or arranged differently now or something. However: He doesn't know how to extract the files from my Notes app, which are my most important documents. He says that there could be several ways to do this but he's not an expert on this particular Mac file system or computer model/operation system. How does one extract the Notes files and get my data back as readable Notes files?