Disk Utility Error

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Disk Utility Error

I ran first aid in recovery mode and received numerous errors:

error: doc-id tree: record exists for doc-id XXXXX, file-id XXXXX but no inode references for this doc-id

At the end the following messages appeared:

The volume /dev/XXX could not be verified completely

File system check exit code is 8

File system verify or repair failed ; (-69845)

What should I do? Restore from my time machine backup? Format the entire disk? Buy a new computer? How serious is this?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

MacBook Pro 17″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Mar 7, 2022 3:58 PM

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Answer 1

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James Brickley

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4,636 points

Mar 8, 2022 3:14 PM in response to reidfromnorwalk

Rather than rewrite what has already been well documented, read this blog post:

https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/19/disk-utility-still-cant-check-and-repair-apfs-volumes-and-containers/

All credit to Howard Oakley, boy I do love his blog posts!

The article explains the problem of not being able to run First Aid effectively within the Disk Utility and seeing a similar error to what you encountered then offers an in-depth explanation as well as how to work around the problem. Unmounting the specific disk in question and then running the command line equivalent to the First Aid graphical interface. Disk Utility is merely running these commands under the hood when you run First Aid. All you will be doing is bypassing the Disk Utility App and running it manually from within Terminal.

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Answer 2

Mar 8, 2022 4:54 AM in response to reidfromnorwalk

Please go to the Apple Menu and About this Mac then click System Report and collect the following information by highlighting and copying with CMD+C then pasting in reply:

Hardware:

Model Name
Model Identifier

Storage (check each volume and identify each unique physical disk):

Physical Drive

- Device Name
- Media Name
- Medium Type
- Protocol
- S.M.A.R.T. Status

Software:

System Version

This will let us know what specify Mac you have and what specific disks you have. i.e. SSD, HDD, Internal, External, Interface (NVMExpress, SAS, SATA, USB).

If this is an iMac do you have a Fusion HD drive?

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Answer 3

Mar 8, 2022 7:29 AM in response to reidfromnorwalk

Is it the Time Machine backup drive or your internal drive with the Disk Utility errors?

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Answer 4

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Mar 27, 2022 9:48 PM in response to James Brickley

Hey there, I came across just the same error when trying to install Windows using bootcamp.

I've already upgraded my system to the newest one (12.3), and using offline Disk Utility(cmd + R) to do the first aid for my entire 500G SSD(Which has only one APFS Container), and nothing errors exposed.

But I know there must be something wrong with the partition operation, so I tried to partition my SSD, with another partition of 10GB of format ExFAT, and then I got the error message: error: doc-id tree: record exists for doc-id XXXXX, file-id XXXXX but no inode references for this doc-id

May be its another irregular path for the bug, and I cannot search anything related to my unique path.

My env:

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro14,3

Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i7

Processor Speed: 2.9 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 4

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 8 MB

Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled

Memory: 16 GB

System Firmware Version: 447.80.3.0.0

OS Loader Version: 540.100.7~14

SMC Version (system): 2.45f5

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Answer 5

Mar 8, 2022 6:26 AM in response to James Brickley

Thank you so much James for your response. Below is the info you requested. Let me know if you need anything else.

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro15,1

Processor Name: 6-Core Intel Core i9

Processor Speed: 2.9 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 6

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 12 MB

Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled

Memory: 32 GB

System Firmware Version: 1715.81.2.0.0 (iBridge: 19.16.10744.0.0,0)

OS Loader Version: 540.80.2~11

Serial Number (system): C0****G5K

Hardware UUID: 0CEDAA09-4EAB-5A63-81F7-B97697D04716

Provisioning UDID: 0CEDAA09-4EAB-5A63-81F7-B97697D04716

Activation Lock Status: Enabled

Macintosh HD:

Free: 376.55 GB (376,550,318,080 bytes)

Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,240,963,584 bytes)

Mount Point: /

File System: APFS

Writable: No

Ignore Ownership: No

BSD Name: disk1s5s1

Volume UUID: 30821046-42B0-432E-9A89-264EB80D859D

Physical Drive:

Device Name: APPLE SSD AP1024M

Media Name: AppleAPFSMedia

Medium Type: SSD

Protocol: PCI-Express

Internal: Yes

Partition Map Type: Unknown

S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified

Macintosh HD - Data:

Free: 376.55 GB (376,550,318,080 bytes)

Capacity: 1 TB (1,000,240,963,584 bytes)

Mount Point: /System/Volumes/Data

File System: APFS

Writable: Yes

Ignore Ownership: No

BSD Name: disk1s1

Volume UUID: 039A77E8-7103-4D75-A073-30EFAC76C2D6

Physical Drive:

Device Name: APPLE SSD AP1024M

Media Name: AppleAPFSMedia

Medium Type: SSD

Protocol: PCI-Express

Internal: Yes

Partition Map Type: Unknown

S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified

Time Machine Backups:

Free: 484.74 GB (484,741,644,288 bytes)

Capacity: 1.9 TB (1,899,810,496,512 bytes)

Mount Point: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups 1

File System: Case-sensitive APFS

Writable: Yes

Ignore Ownership: No

BSD Name: disk3s1

Volume UUID: BF790C7A-091F-4493-AC64-90185D3D3F00

Physical Drive:

Device Name: Disk Image

Media Name: AppleAPFSMedia

Protocol: Disk Image

Internal: No

Partition Map Type: Unknown

System Software Overview:

System Version: macOS 12.2.1 (21D62)

Kernel Version: Darwin 21.3.0

Boot Volume: Macintosh HD

Boot Mode: Normal

Computer Name: Reid’s MacBook Pro

User Name: Reid Hackney (hackneyr)

Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled

System Integrity Protection: Enabled

Time since boot: 13:40

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Answer 6

Mar 8, 2022 8:30 AM in response to James Brickley

The errors are in the Macintosh HD-Data volume. There are no errors in the Macintosh HD volume. They are both under the Apple SSD/Container Disk 1 volumes. However it appears the errors are on the local snapshots (com.apple.timemachine.YY-MM-DD-XXXXX.local). Hope that helps.

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