- Command + Shift + 3 takes a screenshot of the entire Mac screen. This is the most commonly used screen shot method for most Mac users Command + Shift + 4 brings up a selection box so you can draw a region of the screen to take a screenshot of.
- Press and hold the command and shift buttons on your keyboard and then tap the 3 key. Your Mac will make a short camera shutter sound and then automatically save your screenshot as a new PNG image file on your desktop labelled as ‚Screen Shot‘ followed by the date and time.
Snapshot is a set of history files captured at a particular time, capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state. APFS snapshot is like several panoramas of APFS drive at different times. Thus, whenever our APFS file system goes wrong, we can go back to the previous status of disk.
Launch the Terminal (from Applications Utilities), and then copy and paste this command and press Return: tmutil listlocalsnapshots /. The Terminal will show a list of local snapshots with names. This video shows you how to take a scrolling screenshot on Mac OS X without any 3rd party software. It's absolutely free on Safari.
If APFS snapshot is invalid or the APFS snapshot metadata tree is invalid on macOS, the status of partial data stored on the APFS drive can be affected. It means the snapshot of some files have already been damaged or missingAnd the APFS drive might not be mounted for file accessing as usual. Under this circumstance, we are not allowed to access the APFS drive and files saved on the drive are lost.
Here is a case from forums:
Since I converted my internal hard drive to APFS file system, it worked perfectly. But when I tried to store some files in the drive today, I failed to mount it. Then I checked the drive in Disk Utility, I got an error message saying: 'APFS snapshot is invalid'. I have no idea what happened. Anyone can help me to fix/repair invalid APFS snapshot error?
Fix APFS snapshot is invalid/Snapshot metadata tree is invalid error on High Sierra
Since Invalid APFS snapshot error on High Sierra is so complicated, the only way is to reformat the APFS drive. But we will face useful data loss if we directly reformat the APFS drive. Therefore, for the security of our important files, we'd betterrecover lost data from APFS volume which has invalid APFS snapshot error.
Step 1: Recover lost data from APFS volume which has invalid APFS snapshot error with APFS data recovery software
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Tutorial to recover lost data from APFS drive which has invalid APFS snapshot error
Snapshot Paintball Mac Os X
1. Launch iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac.
2. Select the APFS drive which has 'APFS snapshot is invalid' error and click 'Next' button.
3. Enter password to start searching for lost files on the drive.
4. Preview the searching results, choose files we need, and click 'Recover' to get them back.
Step 2: Fix APFS snapshot or snapshot metadata is invalid error by reformatting
1. Launch Disk Utility.
Snapshot Paintball Mac Os Catalina
2. Select the APFS drive which has 'APFS snapshot is invalid' error on the left part of the window.
3. Click Erase on the top of the window.
4. Complete related information (name, format, scheme), then click Erase.