


As it was too large to restore with the free version of Stellar, I rebooted the MacBook and tried using the mv command in Terminal to undelete the file. I ran the free version of StellarDataRecovery and could see that the file was there and apparently intact. I put it into Target Disk Mode and connected up to my MBP running 11.5.2. Target disk mode stopped working I have a 2015 MacBook with a single USB-C port on which I accidentally deleted a sparse image file. Has anyone else run into similar issues and have any advice? Is it even possible for an SSD (that doesn't have an external power source) to somehow interfere with the trackpad, or am I just reading into the two problems too much? I'm thinking of returning the SSD to SanDisk, but wanted to ask around first to see if I'm missing something. I'm starting to think the SSD itself has a problem (maybe with the USB-C port?), even though I ran First Aid on it several times and found nothing, it also seems to work fine, without disconnects, on other computers. I brought the MacBook into an Apple Store, where they ran a full set of tests and rebooted, but found no hardware issues. Often - not always - the SSD disconnect and the trackpad issues appear at the same time, although I can't tell which one might be triggering the other. The thing is that the two problems seem connected.

I recently bought a new MacBook Air Apple M1 Chip computer and a SanDisk Extreme Pro 1TB SSD external hard drive, which I'd like to use to store my photo library externally, as well as some other files.Īt first, both seemed to work just fine.
