Hello Rick,
On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 14:04:20 -0400 Rick Womer wrote:
>
>I was unclear; it makes the "seeking" noises and the LED flashes a
>bit, then it gives up.
OK, that sound better than 'clicking' :)
<snip>
>> No, partition tables are about CONTENTS, even a virgin disk, with nothing on
>> it,
>> would still appear in Disk-utility (where you would then 'initialize' it,
>> and partition/format)
>>
>>>Jan, I have scarcely used Terminal at all (only to launch FSCK when the OS
>>>wouldn't launch, and a couple of other things); so I would need a detailed
>>>tutorial.
>>
>> No problem when you need it, but if Disk-Utility does not see it, neither
>> will DFSee ...
If you still want to try, even when Disk-Utility fails to see it, here is a
short tutorial on using DFSee on macOS:
1)
Download the distrubution archive, a ZIP containing exectables for all
supported platforms, from:
https://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee_install.zip
The default location will probably be your personal '~/Download' directory,
but you can download it it to some other location too.
2)
Extract the contents of that ZIP, easiest is just to double-click it in the
Finder
3)
Open a terminal window, and navigate to the directory (or folder :) where DFSee
was unpacked,
then to the macOS specific dirctory. When you downloaded/unpacked in
~/Download' that will be:
~/Download/dfsee_install/mac
4)
Set the file attributes to allow execution, and create a symlink to run it from
anywhere
by running the supplied 'setup' script from that directory:
chmod 755 setup
./setup
5)
Now, when you did let the setup create symlinks too, (default to
'/usr/local/bin' but can be specified)
you can simply run any of the dfsee scripts directly since the setup scripts
created symlinks, examples:
dfs
dfsdisk
dfscheck
dfsedit
You can run these from ANY directory, like /tmp or a specific dfsee 'data'
directory,
so logfiles or other resultfiles will end up there too.
Just 'dfs' will run it interactively, in a text-mode version, but WITH a menu,
dialogs and mouse support.
The 'dfsdisk' one will run an analysis of your disk(s) and create reports
to be sent to support personel (which would probably be me in this case)
Note that DFSee needs administrator right to even see the disks, so the
symlinked script
use the 'sudo' command to achieve that (and will prompt for your admin
password).
If you need/want to run it manually, you must either be logged on as root, or
use sudo, as in:
cd ~/Download/dfsee_install/mac
sudo ./dfsee
(assuming setup has already run, and has set the attributes with 'chmod 755
dfsee')
You can find additional information in various text files that are in the
/dfsee_install/doc directory,
and can also be found on the website at:
https://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/help.php
Regards, JvW
PS:
If you are running a very recent macOS (High Sierra or newer) and your boot
disk
has been converted to APFS format, it will NOT show up in DFSee, since it needs
to be unmounted before any access is permitted. You will only see any additional
disks like USB attached ones.
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Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com
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