If an application on OS X has damaged the Journaling data, then when you try to run Disk Warrior, you may get this error:the new directory cannot replace the original directory due to a mac os services failure. You may be able to work around this problem by temporarily turning off Journaling via Disk Utility:
- Open Disk Utility
- Select the Volume of the drive
- Hold down the Option key on the keyboard
- Go to the File menu – select Disable Journaling
Now run Disk Warrior again. Afterwards, you can turn back journaling. I spend many hours trying to get Disk Warrior to rebuild my file-system and after many futile searches, I contacted the Disk Warrior Support, and they suggested this solution. The good news is that in my case it worked.
July 10, 2008 at 10:07 pm |
Worked! Brilliant! And even if I had known that journaling was the culprit, I doubt I would have figured out to hold down the option key in Disk Utility. Thanks so much!
February 18, 2009 at 1:11 pm |
This could be what i’m looking for, Diskwarrior has found all my data but just can’t replace the directory, i’ll let you know how it goes.
February 8, 2012 at 11:40 am |
If you can’t do it in Disk Utility, you can use ‘diskutil disableJournal [Volume Name]‘ in the Terminal, and you can even add -force to force it.