[demonbabies]

I am attempting to recover files off of a failing external hard drive onto another external. However, I was hoping to do this folder by folder instead of cloning the entire drive into a disk image. There are files within these folder that are time sensitive and I cannot wait multiple days while the drive clones.

I have spent the past 4 hours trying to grasp the concept of installing ddrescue into my computer and running it. I used the basic 'dd' command in the past and it was pretty simple. ddrescue is a bit more complex for me.

Could someone please guide me through this process step by step please...starting with the installation process??

[besson3c]

ddrescue 1.14 is available through MacPorts, have you looked at installing it that way? If you want I can provide you with a disk image installer of ddrescue... It doesn't look like it does folder by folder copying though, it appears to do block level copying similar to dd.

[demonbabies]

Oh wow! A disk image installer would be super helpful...thank you!!!

[besson3c]

Here you go

After it has been installed you can invoke it by typing in "/opt/local/bin/ddrescue"