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Yep... CCC is telling me that there are read errors :-( Just checked and haven't backed it up in a year.....
I am so so so stupid
Trying to get back the important bits but the drive ejects itself after about 10mins. Should just about recover from this but it's a real reminder for me to get my shit safe
haveo-
3 copies of everything or they don't exist!!!
THREE COPIES!!!!!!!
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I'd suggest cloning it in the first instance (I normally use dd on a linux livecd but you should be able to do it in Mac OS https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-create-disk-image-on-mac-os-x-with-dd-command/ )
After that mount the image and work on that rather than trying to use the failing drive.
ExTra
aggi
External hard drive? Back up and bin it. They are so cheap these days and I wouldn't trust it again even after a restore and it might work for a little while, you never know when it will eventually die.
I warmed a friend about her hard drive dying, she wouldn't listen, a couple of weeks later, she sent me a test on Sunday morning telling me she'd lost a lot of her files. I LOL.