Trying to run Reallymine on OSX

[EBSmooth]

Hello all,

I'm here with the same problem many others have encountered, my WD My Book failed; not the drive, but the enclosure. The power supply died.

Currently Reallymine is running on an old Lenovo laptop decrypting and imaging a copy of the drive which is great, everything is working fine. But, at the rate it's going, it'll be roughly 60+ days before it's done with the image. It's a 2tb drive that's been running since Sunday 1/28/2018 and has only gotten to 158.8gb copied (out of 2000), about 20gb per day. The computer is old and slow, it's mainly for web browsing and such so I'm not using my working computer for dumb stuff.

I have a 2011 Mac Book Pro that's pretty much loaded. I'd like to try decrypting the drive on that machine, hoping it will drastically cut the amount of time it will take.

I stumbled my way through reallymine in Linux (I'm brand new to Linux). Trying to use the terminal in OSX I'm finding a bit more difficult. I'm no where near being a computer wizard, just a photographer trying to save 5 years of work (the drive died as I was backing it up to a RAID array).

Please don't reply if you're going to ridicule my lack of knowledge on the subject, I never had to use command lines, terminal or Linux before (I find it a bit intimidating to be honest). This only needs to be done one time, I have no other encrypted drives.

Thank you in advance for any and all help. It will be greatly appreciated. If there's anything I can do to return the favor, let me know and I'll do my best.

Regards,
Eric

[andlabs]

There shouldn't be any difference between using reallymine on Linux and OS X once you have the right binary. The biggest difference is that on OS X, disks are loaded onto files called /dev/diskN. You can use the command

$ diskutil list

to find out which disk is which.

I don't think using a different computer will help the decryption speed much, though, because the current reallymine is a bit slow :/ If it doesn't, you can help me test a faster decryption system at #38, as I'm getting mixed results there...

[EBSmooth]

Thank you for the reply Pietro, very much appreciated. The reason I'm thinking the MBP would be faster is, the Lenovo is pretty old, running a Pentium Core 2Duo 3gb of memory, and it is USB 2.0; just checked the secs. I had it sitting around, when I came across the Linux solution to decrypting the drive, it then had a use. Reallymine is awesome, so glad I found and was able to get it running, thank you for it's creation and allowing us to use it. I'd be more than happy to help in any way possible!!! Provided I know how to help. Regards, Eric