Booting into recovery mode

The procedure for starting Fuji in recovery mode is slightly different, depending on the architecture.

It is recommended that the Mac stays connected to AC plug for the whole procedure. If the Mac has only one USB port, you may want to use a USB-C dongle that supports Power Delivery.

Apple Silicon Macs

Turn off the Mac and connect your Fuji Cartridge drive. If you have enough USB ports, connect the destination drive as well.

Press and hold the power button until you see Loading startup options… then release the button.

Icon of a cartridge with the Fuji icon as the label

Icon of the Fuji Cartridge drive (FujiApp)

Look for FujiApp in the list of available options and select it.

✅ Fuji will automatically copy itself to a RAM-disk and start. After Fuji is loaded, you can disconnect the Fuji Cartridge drive and connect your destination drive, if you didn’t do it before.

⚠️ Please read the Important notes section below.

Intel Macs

Turn off the Mac and connect your Fuji Cartridge drive. If you have enough USB ports, connect the destination drive as well.

Start macOS in recovery mode by pressing and releasing the power button, then immediately holding Cmd+R. Please refer to the official Apple website in case you are having trouble starting recovery mode.

After the recovery environment has been loaded, select Utilities → Terminal and then issue the following command:

/Volumes/FujiApp/start.sh

Press Enter.

✅ Fuji will automatically copy itself to a RAM-disk and start. After Fuji is loaded, you can disconnect the Fuji Cartridge drive and connect your destination drive, if you didn’t do it before.

⚠️ Please read the Important notes section below.

⚠️ Important notes

  1. If the Mac is protected with FileVault, you must provide a valid password. Moreover, you need to unlock the Data volume manually by running Disk Utility in the recovery environment.

  2. Before starting the acquisition, you must specify on what drive(s) you want to store temporary files and the final DMG file. Both values are /Volumes/Fuji by default and the image name parameter will be used to make a new directory inside those locations.

  3. The values will be pre-filled only if you connected the destination drive before starting Fuji.

  4. You must not save the disk images on the same drive you are acquiring!

  5. Fuji works on Macs running macOS 10.10 or newer.