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Next select the drive under 'External Removable Devices' tab, click 'Start' to begin scanning lost files on the drive. Plug the external hard drive into your Mac directly or via USB. First, download and install AnyRecover.CCleaner's window just sits there spinning. I am running El Capitan, 10.11.02 on a Mac Pro, late 2013, 3.5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 with 32 GB 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC. I have let CCleaner run for several days in hopes of overwriting the free space on my Lacie 1 TB external hard drive.
How Long Does It Take To Reformat A Hard Drive Mac Directly OrWaiting for days to see if it is going to finish overwriting free space is pretty counter-productive and unacceptable to me. (Note: You can't know what it is doing since nothing is indicated regarding progress or lack thereof.) I have nothing invested but the time I've wasted trying to make it work, so I can't really be too upset. My message to the CCleaner folks would be, make it work as advertized and maybe I'd take another look at it. Because of this, CCleaner would not be a product that I would purchase or endorse.
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