My wife’s laptop drive bit the dust. We already have back-ups of the absolute must-have files. I’ve tried Disk Warrior, Tech Tool Pro, Disk Utility, and the drive is toast. I can still navigate the directories, and pull random files off. But some will throw up an error that they can’t be copied.
All I want to do is copy over as much of her user folder as possible, just in case we missed something. The problem with just transferring over her user folder in one go is that it will transfer a couple hundred files, encounter a bad area of the drive, and then error out and stop.
In other words, let’s say I have folders named “A” through “Z” enclosed in a folder called “User.” I drag “User” over to my own hard drive, and it begins copying. “A” transfers over. “B” transfers over. And then it chokes on “C”, gives me an error, and quits the copy process. But “D” and “E” transfer over fine, so I basically have to restart the process, figuring out which files and folders are stuttering, and continue manually copying at a granular level.
Does that make any sense?
So, what I’m looking for is a utility that, when it gets to “C”, says, “ok, can’t copy a file in this folder. Let’s log it and move on to the next file and try that” and so on, instead of simply stopping the copying process every time.
I also tried just using Image in Disk Utility to make a disk image but that, predictably, didn’t work.
Any ideas other than manually figuring out what the readable folders and files are?