Recovering data from corrupted external drive ?

My 8TB external drive just crashed—APFS map got corrupted, but the data is still intact. All my Logic files are on it, and this is the second time it’s happened, so I’m weighing my options. I could get a new drive, copy the old drive to it, and then reformat the old one; use my other drives (8TB and 7TB) to temporarily upload up to 4TB to Rapidgator and then copy/format as needed; or set up a local cloud server, which I’ve never done before, so any tips would be helpful. What would you do, or would you approach it differently?

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Jace Elric

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September 30, 2025 at 9:30 am

The smartest move is to first clone your corrupted 8TB drive onto a new, solid drive using a read-only method so you don’t risk losing anything. Once you’ve confirmed the clone is good, you can reformat the original drive and put it back into use. From here on out, don’t keep all your critical Logic projects on just one external drive. Using a local NAS or RAID setup, or keeping multiple copies on different drives, will help avoid running into this problem again. For long-term backup, setting up a local server like TrueNAS or Synology gives you incremental backups and built-in redundancy.

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