This is beginning to sound familiar, and if I'm on the right track, a similar problem was solved many years ago by the poster's booting into another volume and running Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility > Repair Disk. (Depending on which version of OS X/macOS you're running, you may be able to run the equivalent repair - "First Aid" in Sierra - from your boot volume.)

The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.

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