#iBoysoftStory: File recovery for external hard drive through MacOS saves academic career

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#iBoysoftStory: File recovery for external hard drive through MacOS saves academic career

I offloaded 60 GB worth of files onto an external 1 TB hard drive to make more room on my computer. These files consisted of an entire semester's worth of assignments for architecture school, as well as thousands of miscellaneous files from grade school.

After this hard drive suddenly become unable to be read, repeatedly displaying error 53249, I tried iBoysoft, and within a few minutes 17,300 files were found on the drive.

I would highly recommend iBoysoft to anyone who is in desperate need of a life saving file recovery program. My files were wholly intact and now I can continue my work on these projects!

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 13.0

Posted on Mar 25, 2025 11:50 PM

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HWTech

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Mar 27, 2025 2:17 PM in response to gaorres

To prevent this scare in the future, you should be performing frequent & regular backups. You got lucky this time. Next time it probably won't turn out so well. There are a lot of new ways to permanently lose access to the data stored on the internal SSD of recent Macs due to all the hardware, software, and security changes.

Apple provides Time Machine as a part of macOS in order to make it extremely easy for people to backup their computer and any externally connected USB/Thunderbolt drives. Of course there are third party apps available as well if Time Machine is not convenient for you.

FYI, iCloud and any other cloud based file syncing services are not backups, although there are some actual cloud based backup services available, but they should not be the primary backup....a local backup to a USB drive should be the primary backup.

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