If you are tired of the inexplicable Blue Screens of Death, viruses, malware, and other problems, then it's certainly the right time to switch over to Mac. Mac has a range of advantages as compared to other operating systems. It is simple, elegant, and offers more security than Windows or Linux. Mac is a stable platform and its software are specifically designed to run on a limited hardware.
Despite several user-specific benefits, a Mac system may occasionally face disk corruption. This corruption primarily occurs in three major areas, i.e. directory of your system startup disk, disk permissions, and cache files of the system, application, or user. The potential causes responsible for corruption include hard drive failures, bad sectors, power surges, system or application crashes, etc. Such situations generally involve a risk of data loss. You should have a backup strategy and implement it on a daily basis to prevent any such catastrophe.
Directory corruption does not always cause file corruption. However, if you are facing the problem of overlapped files or extents, you may encounter data loss. Directory corruption can be resolved by running Disk Utility or any similar third-party tool.
You need to take into account the following precautions before correcting directory corruption using Disk utility or another third-party software:
• You need to run the Disk Utility that is compatible with your version of Mac OS X.
• While using a third-party disk utility, you need to make sure that it is the latest version of the software.
• You should properly read the instructions in the disk utility manual and understand the procedure to run the tool.
If the Disk Utility fails to repair directory corruption, you need to ensure that all permissions are correctly set on the Mac OS X system components. To do this, follow the given procedure:
• Initially log in to the system using your administrator account.
• Quit all applications that run automatically at the system startup.
• Go to 'Applications' > 'Utilities', and then select 'Disk Utility'.
• Now, select the Mac OS X startup disk. This is denoted by the name 'Macintosh HD'.
• In 'Disk Utility', select the 'First Aid' tab and click 'Repair Disk Permissions'.
• After successful completion of the process, you will receive the following message on screen:
“Permissions Repair Complete
The privileges have been verified or repaired on the selected volume”
If you continue to face problems and encounter data loss, use professional Mac data recovery software. Stellar Phoenix Mac is an excellent tool that can safely recover all your lost data from corrupt or damaged Mac hard drives. This tool supports HFS, HFS+, HFS Wrapper and FAT file systems and is compatible with the latest Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
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