You think Steve would have been happy with that? Good to know though. Now when I get an error, I will take it to Recovery. Thanks again for valuable info.


Originally Posted by joemikeb
Originally Posted by plantsower
OK, here is what happened.

I went into recovery mode and ran the SSD, the SSD data, and the Mac OS base system which showed up under recovery in D/U. All was well.

I went out of D/U and out of Recovery and booted up into my regular SSD.

I ran the SSD and it was fine again.

I ran the SSD data and got the exact same errors I got the first two times I ran them not in recovery. What does that tell you, if anything?

I tells me soemthing that is published in Apple documents and has been true since Mac OS X 10.0 Public Beta is still valid. Running Disk Utility > First Aid against the current boot drive is prone to false error reports. No errors were found when you were booted from the Recovery Drive so your volumes are fine.

NOTE: the same tendency to false error reporting when checking the current boot drive is true of all volume repair utilities.


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