DiskWarrior

[Jakimo]

A response came pretty quickly:

"A few minor updates to version 5 have been provided free of charge to all existing DIskWarrior 5 customers. The latest release, version 5.3.1, is an integral part of DIskWarrior 6, including support for Apple Silicon Processors. The program is undergoing a complete rewrite.

Currently, I am not aware of an available program that can repair APFS formatted drives. You can reach out to technical support for the most current information and suggestions regarding your APFS drives. They can be reached at tech.support@alsoft.com or by calling 281-358-1510.

The current version can be used on APFS formatted drives to repair compatible external drives. Additionally, you can use DiskWarrior to copy files from a failing APFS drive using our Preview tool. DiskWarrior 5.3.1 can also rebuild any HFS+ formatted external drives and SparseBundles/Images including Time Machine backups.

We value you as a customer and appreciate your dedication to our software. It is our shared interest to engineer an APFS compatible version of the software for our customers."

 

[Jakimo]

A response came pretty quickly:

"A few minor updates to version 5 have been provided free of charge to all existing DIskWarrior 5 customers. The latest release, version 5.3.1, is an integral part of DIskWarrior 6, including support for Apple Silicon Processors. The program is undergoing a complete rewrite.

Currently, I am not aware of an available program that can repair APFS formatted drives. You can reach out to technical support for the most current information and suggestions regarding your APFS drives. They can be reached at tech.support@alsoft.com or by calling 281-358-1510.

The current version can be used on APFS formatted drives to repair compatible external drives. Additionally, you can use DiskWarrior to copy files from a failing APFS drive using our Preview tool. DiskWarrior 5.3.1 can also rebuild any HFS+ formatted external drives and SparseBundles/Images including Time Machine backups.

We value you as a customer and appreciate your dedication to our software. It is our shared interest to engineer an APFS compatible version of the software for our customers."

I asked for an ETA:

“Unfortunately, I can not provide a release date. We may have more information in the next 6 months.”

 

[HDFan]

I am not aware of an available program that can repair APFS formatted drives.

The current version can be used on APFS formatted drives to repair compatible external drives.

Statements seem to be contradictory?

 

[deconstruct60]

... The current version can be used on APFS formatted drives to repair compatible external drives. ...

Statements seem to be contradictory?

Probably phrased a bit 'backwards'. (perhaps on purpose so that in part makes it appears it isn't hopelessly out of date with the times).

The official list of APFS related limitations:
"...
The Preview application in DiskWarrior can now copy files to APFS disks when recovering data from a failing Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) disk. ..."

DiskWarrior 5.3 & APFS — ALSOFT

www.alsoft.com

The 'used on" is as a target rescue location; not the source failing location.


P.S. The standard fsck can fix APFS systems with limited problems. The problem for Diskwarrior is going able to do anything better than fsck once a major portion of the metadata about the file system has more than significantly failed. (i.e., there is a program that can use. So first statement has problems also.) Without the data on file layout and versioning it is far closer to just a random set of blocks on the drive. There isn't a fixed pattern there to recover.