#Diskwarrior boot from usb 64 Bit
#Diskwarrior boot from usb 32 bit

While Iâ€™ve been using Macs since the LC, Iâ€™m really only computer literate enough to just observe what errors a drive utility reports and watch it fix them! I like my systems to be up to date and trouble free but am well aware that problems will inevitably occur, particularly those that may be the result of my own stupidity. Even if it choked on something it would not at the moment be able to do the necessary repairs. The point is that I donâ€™t know whether I absolutely need to run DW on my APFS drive. So what do I do in the meantime? Patiently and perhaps naively assume things are either OK, will be fixed by moving to Catalina or are simply not serious enough to worry about? Move to an alternative utility? Although I donâ€™t think itâ€™s CCCâ€™s prime purpose to find such files, Iâ€™m relieved that it does but I do wonder what else could be wrong that a disk health utility like DuskWarrior (ho ho, I meant disk but dusk does seem apt at this time!) would normally pick up.

Current Apple APFS documentation for developers is reportedly absent or somewhat sketchy and it may yet be some time before Alsoft (now with a fancy new website) and others can get up to speed.Ĭarbon Copy Cloner regularly identifies a few probably corrupt files and understandably baulks at copying them to the clone and some of these (eg a ChineseWordlistUpdate bom file) canâ€™t be deleted. Previously I had used it for years to clean things up before cloning to a backup drive (it never identified anything very serious but why would you clone a potentially dodgy drive?). I have the current version of DW (5.2) and, while it is 64 bit, it cannot at the moment repair my Mojave converted APFS volume.

#Diskwarrior boot from usb 64 Bit

I can find suitable free or paid 64 bit replacements for the rest but one in particular, Disk Warrior, has me scratching my head in frustration. Most are old, redundant or I no longer need (like anything to do with Adobe or Microsoft) and can be tossed without a qualm.

#Diskwarrior boot from usb 32 bit

In preparation for upgrading to Catalina I have identified 80 or so 32 bit apps and associated files on my Mojave run late 2013 iMac (17 of these are actually Apple associated). This post is really just musing but I would welcome any thoughts.