Re: Donate your unneeded stuff! was - Re: [Avid-L2] Anyone need 2tb drives?

I love the concept.  Maybe when I retire I can find a local group that
does this and volunteer time.  Thanks.  --J.B.

Jo's Mailinglists wrote:
> This is the Austrian way doing it - aside "sing-a-long" Sound of Music
> Stuff:
>
> (it's in German, however, it 's legit and no wikipage)
>
> <https://www.pcsfueralle.at>
>
> Before trashing your gear think of donating it.
> If you have no place to donate to: set up a small thing for your
> community (if you can, have the and your innerst eagerness!), help
> before ditch!
>
> Well, that's just me and my - no, in this business I'm not even left with:
>
> 2¢.
>
> Best
>
> Jo
>
>
> Jochen "Jo" Hermann
> filter Media Postproduction
> Salzburg, Austria
>
>> On 22. Oct 2021, at 03:34, Secret HQ <Greg@secrethq.com
>> <mailto:Greg@secrethq.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Great idea.
>>
>> Here in Los Angeles we have 'homeboy industries'  which is a sort of
>> a halfway-house-first-employer/job skills training for ex-gangsters,
>> ex-cons, and at-risk youth.  They run a bakery, they have a salsa
>> company, a grocery store, a cafe, etc., and best of all, electronics
>> recycling and e-waste.  When I closed my brick-and-mortar post house
>> in 2018, any infrastructure I couldn't resell or donate to someone in
>> one of the social media groups, went to their recycling operation.
>>  Several SUVs worth!
>>
>> Refurbishing surplus computers for donation is a great idea, too!
>>
>>
>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeboy_Industries
>>
>> I'm currently remodeling an old duplex, and the amount of landfill is
>> embarrassing, even though I know all the LA trash companies recycle
>> what they can.
>>
>> GH
>> ________________________
>> Greg Huson
>> Secret Headquarters, Inc
>> GK Huson, LLC
>> Greg (at) SecretHQ.com <http://SecretHQ.com>
>> www.SecretHQ.com <http://www.SecretHQ.com>
>>
>>
>>> On Oct 21, 2021, at 18:14, Jo's Mailinglists via groups.io
>>> <http://groups.io> <lists=filter-media.net@groups.io
>>> <mailto:lists=filter-media.net@groups.io>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm jumping this for a totally off-list reason:
>>>
>>> We are all working on 'puters and components that might have been
>>> ended their life from our perspective.
>>>
>>> Well, we here (Austria, "old world") have an "NGO"  that is
>>> collecting "old" computers and parts, get them set-up by experienced
>>> (even retired by now) individuals, putting together _your_ left-over
>>> parts, configuring and setting up a new system. And they then just
>>> donate it to the people, which cannot afford any computer.
>>>
>>> Wherever you are: you can set up the same, same big scale. Or at
>>> least: animate others to do the exact same thing!
>>>
>>> I do not know about your individual communities, but: me,
>>> personally, I did rather give this group all I have before get it
>>> dumped, trash it, maybe even pay for disposal.
>>>
>>>
>>> It's 2021, Avid still is sometime like Meridian - but here's the
>>> catch: you can change the future, at least help, enable other to do
>>> thus.
>>>
>>>
>>> sry4justtelling you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Jo
>>>
>>>
>>> Jochen "Jo" Hermann
>>> filter Media Postproduction
>>> Salzburg, Austria
>>>
>>>> On 21. Oct 2021, at 17:03, Secret HQ <Greg@secrethq.com
>>>> <mailto:Greg@secrethq.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I retired my Terrablock a few years ago, but kept the drives. 
>>>> Turns out I have plenty of spinning media and really haven't found
>>>> a use for them.  I'm pretty sure the drives are 2tb WD enterprise
>>>> drives, so they're good drives, though very very likely out of
>>>> warranty now. Still, you know, free.
>>>> I have a box of 20 looking for a new home, free to you if you take
>>>> them all.  I'll even pay the UPS bill.  I hate making landfill when
>>>> it can be avoided.
>>>> gh
>>>> Greg Huson
>>>> GK Huson, LLC
>>>> Secret Headquarters, Inc
>>>> Santa Monica, CA 90405
>>>> Greg (at)SecretHQ.com <http://secrethq.com/>
>>>> www.secrethq.com <http://www.secrethq.com/>
>>>
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Re: Donate your unneeded stuff! was - Re: [Avid-L2] Anyone need 2tb drives?

This is the Austrian way doing it - aside "sing-a-long" Sound of Music Stuff:

(it's in German, however, it 's legit and no wikipage)

<https://www.pcsfueralle.at>

Before trashing your gear think of donating it.

If you have no place to donate to: set up a small thing for your community (if you can, have the and your innerst eagerness!), help before ditch!

Well, that's just me and my - no, in this business I'm not even left with:

2¢.

Best

Jo

Jochen "Jo" Hermann

filter Media Postproduction

Salzburg, Austria

On 22. Oct 2021, at 03:34, Secret HQ <Greg@secrethq.com> wrote:

Great idea.  

Here in Los Angeles we have 'homeboy industries'  which is a sort of a halfway-house-first-employer/job skills training for ex-gangsters, ex-cons, and at-risk youth.  They run a bakery, they have a salsa company, a grocery store, a cafe, etc., and best of all, electronics recycling and e-waste.  When I closed my brick-and-mortar post house in 2018, any infrastructure I couldn't resell or donate to someone in one of the social media groups, went to their recycling operation.  Several SUVs worth!  

Refurbishing surplus computers for donation is a great idea, too!  

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeboy_Industries

I'm currently remodeling an old duplex, and the amount of landfill is embarrassing, even though I know all the LA trash companies recycle what they can.  

GH

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Greg (at) SecretHQ.com

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On Oct 21, 2021, at 18:14, Jo's Mailinglists via groups.io <lists=filter-media.net@groups.io> wrote:

 Hi all,

I'm jumping this for a totally off-list reason:

We are all working on 'puters and components that might have been ended their life from our perspective.

Well, we here (Austria, "old world") have an "NGO"  that is collecting "old" computers and parts, get them set-up by experienced (even retired by now) individuals, putting together _your_ left-over parts, configuring and setting up a new system. And they then just donate it to the people, which cannot afford any computer.

Wherever you are: you can set up the same, same big scale. Or at least: animate others to do the exact same thing!

I do not know about your individual communities, but: me, personally, I did rather give this group all I have before get it dumped, trash it, maybe even pay for disposal.

It's 2021, Avid still is sometime like Meridian - but here's the catch: you can change the future, at least help, enable other to do thus.

sry4justtelling you.

Best

Jo

Jochen "Jo" Hermann

filter Media Postproduction

Salzburg, Austria

On 21. Oct 2021, at 17:03, Secret HQ <Greg@secrethq.com> wrote:

I retired my Terrablock a few years ago, but kept the drives.  Turns out I have plenty of spinning media and really haven't found a use for them.  I'm pretty sure the drives are 2tb WD enterprise drives, so they're good drives, though very very likely out of warranty now.  Still, you know, free.  

 

I have a box of 20 looking for a new home, free to you if you take them all.  I'll even pay the UPS bill.  I hate making landfill when it can be avoided.

 

gh

 

Greg Huson

GK Huson, LLC

Secret Headquarters, Inc

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Greg (at) SecretHQ.com

www.secrethq.com

 

Re: Donate your unneeded stuff! was - Re: [Avid-L2] Anyone need 2tb drives?

Great idea.  

Here in Los Angeles we have 'homeboy industries'  which is a sort of a halfway-house-first-employer/job skills training for ex-gangsters, ex-cons, and at-risk youth.  They run a bakery, they have a salsa company, a grocery store, a cafe, etc., and best of all, electronics recycling and e-waste.  When I closed my brick-and-mortar post house in 2018, any infrastructure I couldn't resell or donate to someone in one of the social media groups, went to their recycling operation.  Several SUVs worth!  

Refurbishing surplus computers for donation is a great idea, too!  

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeboy_Industries

I'm currently remodeling an old duplex, and the amount of landfill is embarrassing, even though I know all the LA trash companies recycle what they can.  

GH

________________________

Greg Huson

Secret Headquarters, Inc

GK Huson, LLC

Greg (at) SecretHQ.com

www.SecretHQ.com

On Oct 21, 2021, at 18:14, Jo's Mailinglists via groups.io <lists=filter-media.net@groups.io> wrote:

 Hi all,

I'm jumping this for a totally off-list reason:

We are all working on 'puters and components that might have been ended their life from our perspective.

Well, we here (Austria, "old world") have an "NGO"  that is collecting "old" computers and parts, get them set-up by experienced (even retired by now) individuals, putting together _your_ left-over parts, configuring and setting up a new system. And they then just donate it to the people, which cannot afford any computer.

Wherever you are: you can set up the same, same big scale. Or at least: animate others to do the exact same thing!

I do not know about your individual communities, but: me, personally, I did rather give this group all I have before get it dumped, trash it, maybe even pay for disposal.

It's 2021, Avid still is sometime like Meridian - but here's the catch: you can change the future, at least help, enable other to do thus.

sry4justtelling you.

Best

Jo

Jochen "Jo" Hermann

filter Media Postproduction

Salzburg, Austria

On 21. Oct 2021, at 17:03, Secret HQ <Greg@secrethq.com> wrote:

I retired my Terrablock a few years ago, but kept the drives.  Turns out I have plenty of spinning media and really haven't found a use for them.  I'm pretty sure the drives are 2tb WD enterprise drives, so they're good drives, though very very likely out of warranty now.  Still, you know, free.  

 

I have a box of 20 looking for a new home, free to you if you take them all.  I'll even pay the UPS bill.  I hate making landfill when it can be avoided.

 

gh

 

Greg Huson

GK Huson, LLC

Secret Headquarters, Inc

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Greg (at) SecretHQ.com

www.secrethq.com

 

Donate your unneeded stuff! was - Re: [Avid-L2] Anyone need 2tb drives?

Hi all,

I'm jumping this for a totally off-list reason:

We are all working on 'puters and components that might have been ended their life from our perspective.

Well, we here (Austria, "old world") have an "NGO"  that is collecting "old" computers and parts, get them set-up by experienced (even retired by now) individuals, putting together _your_ left-over parts, configuring and setting up a new system. And they then just donate it to the people, which cannot afford any computer.

Wherever you are: you can set up the same, same big scale. Or at least: animate others to do the exact same thing!

I do not know about your individual communities, but: me, personally, I did rather give this group all I have before get it dumped, trash it, maybe even pay for disposal.

It's 2021, Avid still is sometime like Meridian - but here's the catch: you can change the future, at least help, enable other to do thus.

sry4justtelling you.

Best

Jo

Jochen "Jo" Hermann

filter Media Postproduction

Salzburg, Austria

On 21. Oct 2021, at 17:03, Secret HQ <Greg@secrethq.com> wrote:

I retired my Terrablock a few years ago, but kept the drives.  Turns out I have plenty of spinning media and really haven't found a use for them.  I'm pretty sure the drives are 2tb WD enterprise drives, so they're good drives, though very very likely out of warranty now.  Still, you know, free.  

 

I have a box of 20 looking for a new home, free to you if you take them all.  I'll even pay the UPS bill.  I hate making landfill when it can be avoided.

 

gh

 

Greg Huson

GK Huson, LLC

Secret Headquarters, Inc

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Greg (at) SecretHQ.com

www.secrethq.com

 

Re: [Avid-L2] Anyone need 2tb drives?

Double check that the drives are SATA and not SAS. Not much use for SAS drives outside servers.

I paid to have our TB hauled away as e-waste.

Robert

On Oct 21, 2021, at 10:05 AM, wilsonchao <wilsonchao@gmail.com> wrote:

Greg,

     I'll take them!  I don't have a need for them myself, but I have impoverished students who can make good use of them!

Wilson

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:03 AM Secret HQ <Greg@secrethq.com> wrote:

I retired my Terrablock a few years ago, but kept the drives.  Turns out I have plenty of spinning media and really haven't found a use for them.  I'm pretty sure the drives are 2tb WD enterprise drives, so they're good drives, though very very likely out of warranty now.  Still, you know, free. 

 

I have a box of 20 looking for a new home, free to you if you take them all.  I'll even pay the UPS bill.  I hate making landfill when it can be avoided.

 

gh

 

Greg Huson

GK Huson, LLC

Secret Headquarters, Inc

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Greg (at) SecretHQ.com

www.secrethq.com

 

Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive failure #OffTopic

I had an sdhc camera card go south while on vacation. Camera said it was up formatted bu failed trying to format it. It wasn't recognized by my mac even though disk tool saw it as unformatted, but couldn't format or repair it. I wound up buying disk drill which recovered all the photos off the drive for me, and I was even able to reformat it after it worked it's magic. You can find a free trial version online 

On Oct 19, 2021, at 11:46 PM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

Not to insult anyone's intelligence but have you restarted your daughter's computer?  I ask because my daughter's 15inch macbookpro never gets restarted by her.  No matter how many times I tell her to she can't be bothered with all the time it takes to restart and I always find her usb port dead.  She virtually never uses the port.  Every time I try to hook something to the USB I find it dead and have to power down and reboot her computer and then it works.  I could probably do a restart but at that point I like to do a full power down just for peace of mind.  It has fixed the port every time.

It doesn't sound like you have this problem given it's not showing up on the PC too but perhaps it's formatted in a mac centric format that's keeping the PC from being able to read it?

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:14 AM, crispinmholland wrote:

Hello all
My daughter's Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive suddenly failed without being fully backed up...
The Red light is flashing on it.
It does not show up at all in Disk Utility or the Terminal.
Its presence is noted on my PC laptop, but not on my Mac Pro 5.1 (although the red light flashes).
I own Disk Warrior 4.4 but it's too old to run on my Mac - would Disk Warrior 5 be able to resurrect this thing?
Any other ideas for a Witch Doctor programme that can find/diagnose/wake up/fix/extract files etc?
Thanks for any advice.

Re: [Avid-L2] Anyone need 2tb drives?

Great!  Send me your shipping address off list and I'll UPS them to you in the next few days.

 

 

gh

 

 

Greg Huson

GK Huson, LLC

Secret Headquarters, Inc

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Greg (at) SecretHQ.com

www.secrethq.com

 

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Greg,

 

     I'll take them!  I don't have a need for them myself, but I have impoverished students who can make good use of them!

 

Wilson

 

 

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:03 AM Secret HQ <Greg@secrethq.com> wrote:

I retired my Terrablock a few years ago, but kept the drives.  Turns out I have plenty of spinning media and really haven't found a use for them.  I'm pretty sure the drives are 2tb WD enterprise drives, so they're good drives, though very very likely out of warranty now.  Still, you know, free. 

 

I have a box of 20 looking for a new home, free to you if you take them all.  I'll even pay the UPS bill.  I hate making landfill when it can be avoided.

 

gh

 

Greg Huson

GK Huson, LLC

Secret Headquarters, Inc

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Greg (at) SecretHQ.com

www.secrethq.com

 

 

Re: [Avid-L2] Anyone need 2tb drives?

Greg,

     I'll take them!  I don't have a need for them myself, but I have impoverished students who can make good use of them!

Wilson

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:03 AM Secret HQ <Greg@secrethq.com> wrote:

I retired my Terrablock a few years ago, but kept the drives.  Turns out I have plenty of spinning media and really haven't found a use for them.  I'm pretty sure the drives are 2tb WD enterprise drives, so they're good drives, though very very likely out of warranty now.  Still, you know, free. 

 

I have a box of 20 looking for a new home, free to you if you take them all.  I'll even pay the UPS bill.  I hate making landfill when it can be avoided.

 

gh

 

Greg Huson

GK Huson, LLC

Secret Headquarters, Inc

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Greg (at) SecretHQ.com

www.secrethq.com

 

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I retired my Terrablock a few years ago, but kept the drives.  Turns out I have plenty of spinning media and really haven't found a use for them.  I'm pretty sure the drives are 2tb WD enterprise drives, so they're good drives, though very very likely out of warranty now.  Still, you know, free. 

 

I have a box of 20 looking for a new home, free to you if you take them all.  I'll even pay the UPS bill.  I hate making landfill when it can be avoided.

 

gh

 

Greg Huson

GK Huson, LLC

Secret Headquarters, Inc

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Greg (at) SecretHQ.com

www.secrethq.com

 

Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive failure #OffTopic

I have a bunch of Sandisk RescuePro Deluxe activation codes that came with Sandisk memory that I couldn't possible use in my lifetime.  If you would like to try one contact me off-list.

Karl Knowles

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Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive failure #OffTopic

I believe Damon said the stick is "Mac formatted" -- but for the record, yes, ExFat formatted drives occasionally get flaky/corrupted on Macs.

I have a back-up drive with 3 partitions -- 2 Mac formatted, and 1 ExFat so I can transfer large finished videos from my clients' PC workstations for my sample reel.  Every so often, the ExFat partition refuses to mount, even though the 2 Mac partitions mount without issue.

Although the partition doesn't appear on the desktop, it is reflected with a generic drive name in Disk Utility -- disk0s4, or something to that effect.

There is a Terminal command process that brings it back.  I found it online, but if anyone needs it, PM me and I'll send it along.

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On Thursday, October 21, 2021, 02:45:07 AM EDT, TrevorA <groups.io@siempre.free-online.co.uk> wrote:

Was it ExFat formatted? Had a few drive issues around these corrupting, possibly not being properly ejected.

Equally I've had a few SanDisk thumb drives give up the ghost in the past. Have always chucked + repurchased. 

Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive failure #OffTopic

Was it ExFat formatted? Had a few drive issues around these corrupting, possibly not being properly ejected.

Equally I've had a few SanDisk thumb drives give up the ghost in the past. Have always chucked + repurchased. 

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Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive failure #OffTopic

Do you have another mac computer you could try it on?  That would most likely eliminate my thought that the usb port wasn't working correctly.  I'm not much of a PC operator these days but is it possible that it might give the warning "USB device not recognised" if it didn't understand the flash drives format?  At work we had some SSD Glyph drives that were formatted APFS in the field but then used on older mac OSs get corrupted and they took them to Melrose Mac to fix the problem.  I assume it was directory issues that were caused by running the drives on the older mac systems that didn't understand APFS but worked for a while until something got corrupted in the file directory.  I don't know exactly what Melrose Mac did but they were able to repair the drives and allow access to the inaccessible data.

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Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive failure #OffTopic

sorry - I hadn't finished that.. the Windows laptop gave a warning that said something like: "USB device not recognised" when I tried it again, but it is not present in Disk Management.

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Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive failure #OffTopic

I have found Disk Warrior to be indispensable.

On Oct 20, 2021, at 5:33 PM, crispinmholland <crispinholland@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks all for your responses.
"you've checked it's not a cable issue?" - The drive is tiny: it sticks out 5mm from the USB slot.
"TechTool Pro, Disk Warrior" - very happy to buy if they are the right tool to find a drive that can't be found!
"Re-start computer" - not a silly idea at all.
"perhaps it's formatted in a mac centric format" - yes, it is Mac formatted, normally used on a MacBook Pro.
and I can't get Disk Utility/Terminal to find it at all on my Mac Pro 2012 or on my Window 10 PC laptop... although I tried the USB drive in both the Mac Pro and they Windows laptop and it almost mounted in both - then gave up... so there might be some life in it...

Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive failure #OffTopic

Thanks all for your responses.
"you've checked it's not a cable issue?" - The drive is tiny: it sticks out 5mm from the USB slot.
"TechTool Pro, Disk Warrior" - very happy to buy if they are the right tool to find a drive that can't be found!
"Re-start computer" - not a silly idea at all.
"perhaps it's formatted in a mac centric format" - yes, it is Mac formatted, normally used on a MacBook Pro.
and I can't get Disk Utility/Terminal to find it at all on my Mac Pro 2012 or on my Window 10 PC laptop... although I tried the USB drive in both the Mac Pro and they Windows laptop and it almost mounted in both - then gave up... so there might be some life in it...

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Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive failure #OffTopic

Not to insult anyone's intelligence but have you restarted your daughter's computer?  I ask because my daughter's 15inch macbookpro never gets restarted by her.  No matter how many times I tell her to she can't be bothered with all the time it takes to restart and I always find her usb port dead.  She virtually never uses the port.  Every time I try to hook something to the USB I find it dead and have to power down and reboot her computer and then it works.  I could probably do a restart but at that point I like to do a full power down just for peace of mind.  It has fixed the port every time.

It doesn't sound like you have this problem given it's not showing up on the PC too but perhaps it's formatted in a mac centric format that's keeping the PC from being able to read it?

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:14 AM, crispinmholland wrote:

Hello all
My daughter's Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive suddenly failed without being fully backed up...
The Red light is flashing on it.
It does not show up at all in Disk Utility or the Terminal.
Its presence is noted on my PC laptop, but not on my Mac Pro 5.1 (although the red light flashes).
I own Disk Warrior 4.4 but it's too old to run on my Mac - would Disk Warrior 5 be able to resurrect this thing?
Any other ideas for a Witch Doctor programme that can find/diagnose/wake up/fix/extract files etc?
Thanks for any advice.

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Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive failure #OffTopic

Why not just upgrade Disc Warrior? It always comes in handy to rebuild drives when they forget what/who they are. It's a useful tool and is at least worth trying before bringing out the big guns and going data recovery services. 

On Oct 19, 2021, at 12:28 PM, Sol Fischler via groups.io <sol.fischler=yahoo.com@groups.io> wrote:

Since you asked for other ideas, I'm just going to blurt out "TechTool Pro" -- although I've never had to actually recover files, so all I can say is they advertise that as one of its uses...

For the record, I have a 128gb flash drive that takes an eternity and a half to mount, and equally as long to open the files once it does mount --

...leading me to ask if maybe there's a limit to the optimal size of a flash stick, and if 128 in general is too large...? 

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On Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 01:14:06 PM EDT, crispinmholland <crispinholland@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all
My daughter's Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive suddenly failed without being fully backed up...
The Red light is flashing on it.
It does not show up at all in Disk Utility or the Terminal.
Its presence is noted on my PC laptop, but not on my Mac Pro 5.1 (although the red light flashes).
I own Disk Warrior 4.4 but it's too old to run on my Mac - would Disk Warrior 5 be able to resurrect this thing?
Any other ideas for a Witch Doctor programme that can find/diagnose/wake up/fix/extract files etc?
Thanks for any advice.

Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive failure #OffTopic

Since you asked for other ideas, I'm just going to blurt out "TechTool Pro" -- although I've never had to actually recover files, so all I can say is they advertise that as one of its uses...

For the record, I have a 128gb flash drive that takes an eternity and a half to mount, and equally as long to open the files once it does mount --

...leading me to ask if maybe there's a limit to the optimal size of a flash stick, and if 128 in general is too large...? 

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On Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 01:14:06 PM EDT, crispinmholland <crispinholland@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all
My daughter's Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive suddenly failed without being fully backed up...
The Red light is flashing on it.
It does not show up at all in Disk Utility or the Terminal.
Its presence is noted on my PC laptop, but not on my Mac Pro 5.1 (although the red light flashes).
I own Disk Warrior 4.4 but it's too old to run on my Mac - would Disk Warrior 5 be able to resurrect this thing?
Any other ideas for a Witch Doctor programme that can find/diagnose/wake up/fix/extract files etc?
Thanks for any advice.

Re: [Avid-L2] Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive failure #OffTopic

I assume you've checked it's not a cable issue?

It's also worth giving the actual USB socket a visual inspection, just to check the connectors haven't been damaged in some way.

The problem with flash drives is that some of the techniques used for file recovery on spinning disks don't work with solid state drives.

Traditional disk recovery services will sometimes use methods like forcing the heads to approach bad sectors from  different directions in an approach to get something that can be read. Failing that, they can actually swap platters onto a different (identical) drive unit if it's a head/bearing problem. Unfortunately, it's all just chips and electronic components with flash drives, so I'm not sure how 'surgery' could be successfully performed on these drives.

When you say it 'shows up' on a pc laptop, can you actually see/copy the data, or is the red light just indicating that it cannot read the file system?

On 19/10/2021 18:14, crispinmholland via groups.io wrote:

Hello all
My daughter's Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive suddenly failed without being fully backed up...
The Red light is flashing on it.
It does not show up at all in Disk Utility or the Terminal.
Its presence is noted on my PC laptop, but not on my Mac Pro 5.1 (although the red light flashes).
I own Disk Warrior 4.4 but it's too old to run on my Mac - would Disk Warrior 5 be able to resurrect this thing?
Any other ideas for a Witch Doctor programme that can find/diagnose/wake up/fix/extract files etc?
Thanks for any advice.

[Avid-L2] Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive failure #OffTopic

Hello all
My daughter's Mac Sandisk Ultrafit USB3 128GB flash drive suddenly failed without being fully backed up...
The Red light is flashing on it.
It does not show up at all in Disk Utility or the Terminal.
Its presence is noted on my PC laptop, but not on my Mac Pro 5.1 (although the red light flashes).
I own Disk Warrior 4.4 but it's too old to run on my Mac - would Disk Warrior 5 be able to resurrect this thing?
Any other ideas for a Witch Doctor programme that can find/diagnose/wake up/fix/extract files etc?
Thanks for any advice.

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