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macmesser

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Aug 13, 2012
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Long Island, NY USA
Multiple diagnostic programs all indicate a consistency error on my boot volume, which they are unable to fix. Will I need to do a clean install? File structures seem OK, directory structures have this problem. I need some way to fix it without losing my files or having to reconstruct things. Would a time machine restore be likely to help without reformatting or at least fixing the consistency error? I should mention that I have noticed no problems while using the system.

Tech Tool Pro gives an fsroot tree error with result 9 and now 8. It changed after testing a few times. Drive Genius also found an fsroot tree error. Disk Utility yielded the following salient results:


Checking snapshot 11 of 25.

error: inode_val: object (oid 0x3): invalid nchildren (-1)

Snapshot is invalid.

The volume /dev/rdisk4s1 could not be verified completely.

File system check exit code is 0.

Restoring the original state found as mounted.

Operation successful.
 

macmesser

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Aug 13, 2012
921
198
Long Island, NY USA
Regarding fsroot tree error, is this corruption in the directory structure? If so, perhaps restoring from Time Machine will create a new directory structure with the same files?
 
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