![]() Your Mac will remember that so you can double-click the app to launch it. You’ll need to use the Control-click trick to open DDRescue-GUI the first time you launch the app. ![]() DDRescue-GUI’s graphic front end for ddrescue You’ll see a dialog saying DDRescue-GUI is from an unidentified developer. To get around that, Control-click the app’s icon and choose Open. Open the disk image and drag DDRescue-GUI to your Applications folder.ĭDRescue-GUI isn’t from a signed developer, which means you’ll get a warning saying you can’t run the app when it’s launched. That’s the Mac version, and like many other app installers it’s a disk image. Look for the list of downloads and click on DDRescue-GUI64bit.dmg. ![]() ![]() Like everything else we’ve installed, it’s free.įire up your favorite browser and head over to the DDRescue-GUI website. Using ddrescue from the command line isn’t mind-melting difficult, but I find it a lot easier with a graphic front-end. If you’ve had enough of the command line for now, however, we can put a graphic interface on ddrescue. If you’re comfortable with the command line, you can check out how ddrescue works with this Terminal command: man ddrescue Here’s what you need to enter in Terminal: brew install ddrescue Installing ddrescue involves more command line action. If there’s a problem, Homebrew will tell you what command to type to fix whatever is wrong. After Homebrew finishes installing, enter this command to make sure it’s working properly: brew doctor The Homebrew installer checks for Xcode’s command line tools and helps you install them if they aren’t already there. It’s free, and installs fairly quickly using this Terminal command: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL )" Homebrew is a cool utility for finding and installing command line tools like ddrescue. We’ll get the command line tools installed in the next step. If Xcode isn’t already on your Mac, don’t worry about it. If you’ve already installed Xcode on your Mac, you can get the command line tools using this command in Terminal: xcode-select -install Installing ddrescue requires Xcode, or more accurately, Xcode’s command line tools. Everything you need to enter in Terminal is in this how-to, so feel free to copy and paste instead of typing. What’s it’s up and running we can dive in and get ddrescue installed. ddrescue’s documentation in Terminalīefore we start you’ll need to launch Terminal. That’s especially handy with drives that seem lost forever, but still have recoverable files if only your Mac could see them. Follow along to learn how to install and use ddrescue, plus we’ll show you how to give it a graphic interface, too.ĭdrescue is a command line-based file recovery too that can do its job even if your failing drive won’t mount on your Mac’s desktop. The catch is that it requires a little command line mojo, but we’ve got you covered. Reliable backups can help with the stress part, and ddrescue can help with the rest because it’s good at recovering files, and it’s free. Recovering files from a failing hard drive is stressful and it can be pretty expensive, too.
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