Actually restoring files costs $99.īefore I throw away $99 to recover within-arms-reach files, I do some more searching… either the people behind this utility reverse engineered APFS from half complete docs Apple provides or they are using other public code underneath (spoiler: I never found out if the utility was all custom code or reusing open source code just packaged in a UI 1). Of course, it only shows you file names and file previews in trial mode. My only only option now is to download a utility called “iboysoft” from an anonymous Chinese company with promises it can recover unreadable APFS partitions.Īnd… it shows me all files on the drive! Thanks, “iboysoft,” and shame on you, Apple. Of course each fix of theirs is “our software fixes it! Pay us $99 to recover your data!” Searching online for recovering from APFS Object map is invalid errors brings us to a site called “iboysoft” which is a utility with pretty good marketing SEO for file system problems. No problem, just hop into Disk Utility and mount it.ĪPFS Containers (2 found) | +- | +- Container ERROR -69808 = APFS Container Reference: disk3 Size (Capacity Ceiling) : ERROR -69620 Capacity In Use By Volumes: ERROR -69620 Capacity Not Allocated: ERROR -69620 | +- No VolumesĪpparently, in 2019, Apple has a file system corruptible by crash reboots and also can’t be repaired by their own tools. I launched VLC to watch something from my media drive and… my 2 TB USB drive wasn’t mounted. Now with windows restored to how they looked at the last backup checkpoint two weeks ago, let’s see what else went wrong during a double crashing reboot. So, off to old backups to restore Chrome windows/tabs and Terminal windows/tabs from old saved states. Not good.Īfter the next reboot, the system started okay, but since applications crashed while starting, they lost all of their historical state.

MacOS hard panicked on me with a graphics driver corruption error 2 (which happened after seven “gpuRestart” logs were generated back-to-back).Īfter a forced reboot and re-login, the system crashed again while applications were starting up.

If you only care about the answer, jump to the last section. I spent a day figuring out how to look into a corrupt encrypted APFS partition.

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