Crucial X10 Permissions Issues after power failure

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Crucial X10 Permissions Issues after power failure

I have a new Crucial X10 external, and it's formatted with APFS. A couple of weeks ago I had a power failure and the drive still mounts and I can get to some of the data, but it will not allow me to make changes. Despite having Read & Write Access to the files. "Ignore ownership to this volume" is checked as well. Nothing is locked. When trying to run a repair on the drive it says that it will not unmount. Has anyone else had this issue with these drives. I'm on a new Mac Mini M4Pro.

Mac mini, macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 29, 2024 01:49 PM

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lkrupp

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Dec 29, 2024 02:09 PM in response to TWM8TR

Definitely sounds like the drive got corrupted by the power outage. Your only likely option is erase and reformat the drive. Have you tried to simply disconnect the drive. You might get a message about the drive not being properly ejected. Plug it back in and try to reformat it. Of course unless you have backups of the data on that drive that data will be lost and not recoverable.

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TWM8TR Author

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Dec 29, 2024 02:33 PM in response to lkrupp

Yes, Thanks for the suggestion. I've disconnected it with eject, it will eject. I can connect it to my M1 Air that is on macOS 15 as well and it's still the same issues. It won't allow me to run Disk Utility first aid on it. I can copy certain information off of the drive. ie a photos library will not allow me to copy it, but I can go in to the package contents and copy the files from it. Which is what I'm doing now, but just strange that it's permission issues and errors on it.

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