On Feb 22, 2025, at 12:33?PM, Steve Parmley via groups.io <rushtofire@...> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Can someone please point me in the direction of a software utility that can compare files over multiple drives so they can be consolidated onto one computer? I don’t mind paying for it.

The back story is I have eight drives from various computers I’ve had over the years. I have an old iMac that has a hybrid drive. One of the drives failed years ago and I attempted to rescue it with Stellar before taking it to Apple for repair. All it did was capture my folder structure with all the files listed, but the majority of the newer files were corrupted. It is a daunting process to get the files back. I have recently purchased a new iMac with the intentions of getting all the old files on there. Photos, videos, documents, the usual stuff. The drives that I used for back-up have also failed, so once I get this all sorted out, I plan to get a back-up redundancy plan going. For now it will be a lot of digging, and to do it manually feels overwhelming. I’m using a Zilke device for reading the old drives and that seems to be doing a decent job, but many of the files with the newest dates are corrupted and cant be opened.

Thanks in advance. I know this is a total mess of a situation and I expect it to take a long time to recover.

Steve