Disk Warrior & damaged Journaling data

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.

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3 Responses to “Disk Warrior & damaged Journaling data”

Cheule Says:
July 10, 2008 at 10:07 pm | Reply
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!
Germain Says:
February 18, 2009 at 1:11 pm | Reply
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.
Toby Says:
February 8, 2012 at 11:40 am | Reply
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.

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