GuyBorlander Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 Hi! I moved my external hard drive where all my plug-ins are installed on when logic was open on my mac. I had an indication "hard drive was not ejected properly" nothing was being written from my Mac to the external hard drive at the time and nothing was actively open regarding the Mac transferring files to my external hard drive. I restarted my Mac and set everything up again and got back to work. anyway, my questions are 1. if there is potentially any data loss (one specific file from an installed plugin becoming corrupted or a single audio file becoming corrupted) would there be ANY WAY of scanning, checking or finding this? I'm probably too much of a hypochondriac when it comes to these things because I can't afford loosing or messing anything up. and yes I do have files backed up... 2. if an one file from an installed plugin became corrupted or for another example an installed Omnisphere library became corrupted - would logic let me know this when opening the plugin ? I'm more of a creative / producer type than tech type of person and need to be measured that im all good. I've always ejected my hard drives and have never disconnected it like that before . it seems fine though . if everything seems fine; is there no need to wipe my external hard drive and then reinstall every plugin? cheers, Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 8 minutes ago, GuyBorlander said: 1. if there is potentially any data loss (one specific file from an installed plugin becoming corrupted or a single audio file becoming corrupted) would there be ANY WAY of scanning, checking or finding this? Yes, this is what Disk Utility is for... run a repair on the drive. 8 minutes ago, GuyBorlander said: if an one file from an installed plugin became corrupted or for another example an installed Omnisphere library became corrupted - would logic let me know this when opening the plugin ? If a plugin didn't load properly, you'd get a warning the plugin couldn't be opened. 8 minutes ago, GuyBorlander said: is there no need to wipe my external hard drive and then reinstall every plugin? You mean if a repair operation with Disk Utility fails and says the drive can't be recovered? - then yes, that's what you would do to fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuyBorlander Posted November 20 Author Share Posted November 20 hi thank you for your quick reply. I ran a repair using disk utility - the process completed and finished. does this mean there is 100% defiantly no data loss, damage or corruption on my external hard drive? cheers, Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 You should be fine... 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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