#Paragon ntfs for mac crashing mac os x

While Mac OS X uses journaling on HFS+, Linux doesn't. So, if you get a crash while in Mac OS X or Linux, chances are that you get data corruption. Paragon NTFS for Mac/Linux or NTFS-3G don't use journaling to it's full extent (for both metadata and data). NTFS is good at surviving a crash if and only if the crash occurs in Windows. You might be successful trying multiple methods, so KEEP AN INTACT COPY. Always have an intact copy of the original FS. Once you do that, use DiskWarrior or Stelar Phoenix on either one of the copies, while keeping the other one intact.

So grab a second drive, connect it over USB and using hdiutil or dd copy it to the second drive. Never work on the original corrupted filesystem unless you have copies of it. If you didn't make ANY changes to the filesystem after it was corrupted, you still have a chance with software like DiskWarrior or Stelar Phoenix. Also some heuristics like is the file only 1 second long, then its F'ed up. All 'file' is going to test is pretty much does the file begin with or contain a regex something like less-than html greater-than (getting past the filters).įor content you could F around with, for example, piping a mp3 file thru a decoder and then thru an averaging spectrum analyzer and see if there's anything overly unusual in the spectrum. This only detects corruption in the structure of the file, if the corruption is just a couple bits then you end up with problems like tQis where the only way to see the h got fouled up is to write more or less a IQ 100 artificial intelligence. Its a terrible verifying parser and does nothing to verify content.Īn example of what I'm getting at, with some made up details, unfortunately html is not like well formed xml and every viewer is different anyway so the best way to figure out if a html web page file format is corrupt is unfortunately to pull it up in firefox. For some formats it does as little as look at a couple header bytes.