Repair Disk isn’t the first option you should choose if your Mac is ailing, but it is helpful when (for example): Performance has degraded Data is missing You are experiencing degraded system ...

There are a few final useful utilities in Apple's Disk Utility you may not be aware of. Here's how to use them the continued exploration of the macOS tool. In the previous three installments of this ...

There are a variety of maintenance routines that people can run in OS X, including the disk verification and permissions repair that come with the system, along with scripts such as cache cleaners ...

Apple announced Thursday that it was expanding its self-repair program to allow users to service their M3 MacBook Pros and iMacs. That means if you have an issue with your M3 iMac or MacBook Pro, M3 ...

Apple has released a trio of articles that offer new or updated information regarding disk repairs. Let’s take a look at each. Gray progress bar at startup and Snow Leopard According to an Apple ...

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OS X offers a very nice graphical user interface to verify and repair your hard drive, located in the Utilities folder. It’s called Disk Utility, and you can use it as the first line of defense when ...

I've got a Late-2009 Aluminum iMac (27"). It crashed last night, so I restarted and it booted into the restore disk. I tried to verify/repair the disk and got: I thought I had a recent time machine ...