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Why has my Mac been running fsck_hfs for two days now?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 202663203 views
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I first noticed that was running, taking up 50-75% of a CPU, yesterday. It continues to run today. Running shows that it is doing . Only problem: I don’t think I have a . Why is it running? Will it ever finish? Can I it? What is ? Could it be my Time Machine volume, which is not mounted at the mome…

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fsck_hfs

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Fix for: Why has my Mac been running fsck_hfs for two days now?

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Clicking on the Time Machine icon in the menu bar and choose "Skip verification" caused the process to stop itself. Maybe a bit nicer than ...

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