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Hi! Recently my macbook (due to water damage according to the apple store) completely died- the tech guy said that they could repair it, but there was no gurantee the data would be all there when repaired so he said I could try and use an enclosure to recover the files (link:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TQW…) So I ordered it and followed the steps and plugged my dead mac’s hard drive into it and then the adapter into my sister’s (perfectly fine) computer. However, my files did not show up in disk utility or computer- could it be that my my hard drive is damaged beyond repair and I should just repair my old computer with the files? Or could I have done something wrong or something? Please help!! Update (01/27/2019) @mayer @danj @aactech Yes I was careful! It doesn’t show up anywhere- not on disk utility, terminal, or my desktop. Does this mean the files aren’t recoverable? Should I give up and have the apple techs repair the comp and start fresh? My sister has the same mac as me i think, and she was running yosemite and i was running high sierra.
Hold on! If you where using High Sierra on your system and your sisters Mac running is Yosemite her system won’t see or have any way to access the files from your SSD. The issue is Apple altered the format of SSD’s in High Sierra! Your drive is running APFS unlike your sisters Mac who’s SSD is running HFS+ under Yosemite and has no knowledge on how to handle APFS. Your data is safe for now! You’ll need to make a decision here. Are you planning on getting a new Mac? If you do you’ll then need to make sure its running High Sierra and then you’ll be able to recover your files from your drive. The other option is upgrading your sisters system to High Sierra. Just be careful here as your sister will be pi55ed off if you mess her system up too! ;-}
