#disk warrior

Disk Warrior 5 Saved A Year of Photos!

Last April, two days before I left to go back to the USA to be with my dying mother, I tried to reformat my main backup drive with my complete library of images on it. Honestly, I wasn’t trying to do this. A day before, I had another drive fail, and I thought I was reformatting that drive. But in my haste and with my mind already with my mother I selected the wrong drive. This drive had close to…

Above: TechTool Pro has always tried to make the work of fixing a sick Mac look interesting. Photo courtesy Micromat.

BitDepth#1019 for December 15, 2015

All my Windows and Linux readers are going to feel a little left out here, but you might want to hold on to this column should a Mac-toting friend or relative beg for help when things go dark and multilingual.

Confession time. Around 12 years,…