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Good news, it's working now.
I restarted the project on the eMac, which has a higher processor speed than the Mac Mini I was using before.
One thing I did which may have helped was to open Photorec, not by double-clicking the file inside the Testdisk-6.14 folder, but by opening Terminal, doing cd ...

Okay, I'll try that -- or try 6-14 on a different computer, an eMac. The only way I can quit Photorec is to terminate the project by shutting down Terminal. Do you think that is OK to do or might it do some further damage to the failed hard disk?

Hi DSpider
Thanks for the response. In fact, I did select Proceed and pressed Enter and the screenshot is taken after that. It has been like that for nearly 2 days now. In fact, after pressing Enter, nothing seemed to happen, and the arrow keys don't work, and I can't do anything except close ...

Hi,
I'm using Photorec 6-14 to recover files from a failed 2tb external hard drive. Here's a picture of the screen after a day and a half or more after pressing Enter.

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My question is, how to know if Photorec is actually running. Have tried sudo fs_usage | grep photorec in another ...

I am using Mac OS X 10.4.11 and PhotoRec 6-13 to try to recover files from a damaged 2tb Western Digital external drive. Here is what PhotoRec shows after 19 hours and about one-third of the sectors read. At this point I halted it.
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The disk originally had 6 partitions and crashed ...