u/Sea-Analysis8897

AI gave me advice that accidentally ran a destructive Terminal command on a perfectly healthy, 5+ year old 4TB external Seagate HDD (formatted as HFS+). Drive physically passes Disk Utility First Aid fine. I tried running TestDisk Deeper Search, but it's throttling badly and only moving at just 1% per hour (at 25% now). I only need to salvage 1.75TB of meticulously cataloged multimedia (movies, video, and other large files). Should I kill TestDisk to save the physical motor from a 3-day grind, and will a filesystem tool like DMDE parse the HFS+ catalog tree faster without data loss?

I know it is $20 vs. FREE with TestDisk and I only have three days left but still... 🤷🏻‍♂️

AI gave me advice that accidentally ran a destructive Terminal command on a perfectly healthy, 5+ year old 4TB external Seagate HDD (formatted as HFS+). Drive physically passes Disk Utility First Aid fine. I tried running TestDisk Deeper Search, but it's throttling badly and only moving at just 1% per hour (at 25% now). I only need to salvage 1.75TB of meticulously cataloged multimedia (movies, video, and other large files). Should I kill TestDisk to save the physical motor from a 3-day grind, and will a filesystem tool like DMDE parse the HFS+ catalog tree faster without data loss?

I know it is $20 vs. FREE with TestDisk and I only have three days left but still... 🤷🏻‍♂️