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Check file integrity
MacFormat UK
|August 2025
Q What can I use to check and monitor the integrity of many of my important files, whether they're on hard drives or archived to optical discs?
A Some file formats like Zfs build integrity checking into their file system, but using it with macOS is complicated, and you can't boot your Mac from anything other than APFS.
This story is from the August 2025 edition of MacFormat UK.
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