Would like to know what can be recovered

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Hello

I am trying the demo but would like to know what I can expect to recover before I purchase.

I have an external 4TB SSD that is mounted via a USB3 connection to a Mac running Sonoma. The drive is formatted as APFS (Encrypted). It's only 11 months old.

Something has gone wrong and I cannot unlock the drive. Disk Utility on Mac cannot repair it or unlock it.

Your program R-Studio seems to be able to read *something*.

The attached screenshot shows the content in the "Metafiles" folder. It indicates the recovery chances are Good.

I tried to create an image which estimated it would take 20 days.

What will be recovered? The files listed in the Metafiles folder? What do I do with those to see the actual files.

Thanks!

https://wormhole.app/rMAAO7#Xd8Z2wVKSt8p2IYVTIRpWA

If you can't see the image, the contents are shown like this:

Disk-> APFS Container
Metafiles

$SuperBlock Good (Existing file) 4,096
$VolumeBlock Good (Existing file) 4,096
$VolSnapshots Good (Existing file) 4,096
$Keybag Good (Existing file) 8,192
$VolumesMap Good (Existing file) 8,192
$BitmapOfBitmap Good (Existing file) 196,608
$CheckPoints Good (Existing file) 1,163,264
$FreeSpaceQueueMain Good (Existing file) 4,005,888
$ObjectsMap Good (Existing file) 24,788,992
$MetaBlocks Good (Existing file) 114,671,616
$Bitmap Good (Existing file) 126,406,656
$VolExtents Good (Existing file) 244,109,312
$Files Good (Existing file) 2,516,992,000

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The drive is formatted as APFS (Encrypted)

This renders file recovery almost impossible for an ordinary computer user.
In addition, I suspect that your storage device is an SSD. That add more to complexity. This article explains why: File Recovery Specifics for SSD and Other Devices Supporting the TRIM/UNMAP command.