Friday, 13 January 2017

Rescue your files in Mac

If something goes wrong with your Mac, copy off as much data as you can before anything else happens.

This may be possible even when you can't access Finder, using FireWire Target Disk mode.

You will have to borrow a friends mac system for a couple of minutes. So you can retrieve your files via his computer.

Turn off the problem Mac, leaving the other running. Unplug any FireWire peripherals and connect a FireWire cable between the two (use one with a 6-pin connector, not the 4-pin video camera plug).
Start up your problem Mac, holding down T. This is the target Mac, while the other is the host. The target should appear as an icon on the host's Desktop, and you can drag files off it onto the working Mac.

As simple as that. Voila!

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