Disk Utility is Terrible on El Capitan – Here is an Replacement Disk Utility Ported

El Capitan has reached a nice stable milestone but one thing that has always irked me about the OS is its terrible version of Disk Utility.¬† Not only was functionality removed from this utility but it also simply is less stable and does not work much of the time.¬† Let’s say you want make a new USB Time Machine disk and you pick up and external on sale at Wal-Mart.¬† When you go to Erase or partition you will often end up with meaningless errors, such as Out of Space (brand new) or Volume cannot be unmounted (already unmounted), etc.

The fix is to use a customized version of the older more fully functional Disk Utility that has been altered to work on El Capitan (and MacOS Sierra).   This modified version brings back RAID control, ability to create disk images and is overall more stable and more functional then its newer replacement.

Disk-Utility-Legacy-app Mac OSX

Disk Utility Legacy Running on El Capitan