Apologies for the photo but I couldn't copy/paste because my mac is in recovery mode  Basically what I did was have Windows and Debian installed alongside encrypted OSX but this morning I was desperate for space and the other operating systems were hardly used on this machine so I used the bootcamp tool to try and delete windows and regain the extra space. The tool then gave an error but it looked liked windows had been removed so I went to the disk utility and  deleted any other partitions including the linux swap with the intent of merging them all manually. I then rebooted the machine to find the question mark folder so I went into internet recovery mode but it looks like it can't detect the encrypted OSX partition and repair the bootloader I am unsure what to do next as I need the files on this machine Any help would be appreciated
I have a situation very similar to the ones depicted in two previous questions I found ( and ), but still different (I address why my situation is different later on in the question).  The problem  I am really panicking, my computer has been in unbootable status for two days now and because of coronavirus lockdown, in Italy there is no any opened tech shop, at this point I do not know what to do and any help is very much appreciated.  I had a ~50 GB linux partition on the SSD (total ~250 GB) of my 15” Macbook Pro mid-2015. I created this partition to boot ubuntu back in 2016 and I used it regularly alongside macOS. About one year ago I updated to Mojave 10.14, and this is the macOS version my computer is running now (I am mentioning it because I suppose that the update changed the file system of my macOS partition to APFS, keeping unmodified the ubuntu partition, I guess).  Today I decided to remove the ubuntu partition, I started the computer on macOS, opened Disk Utility, find the ~50 GB partition assigned to ubuntu on the pie chart, I clicked on the “-“ sign to remove the partition and then “Apply”. Disk Utility returned to me instantly with an error (not remember exactly the text, but I remember that no error code was given) saying it could not perform the operation, so I googled a bit some solutions (MY COMPUTER WAS PERFECTLY WORKING) and I found a post suggesting to perform some operations from ubuntu, so I decided to restart my computer in order to open ubuntu - I repeat, it was perfectly working, many apps opened and fully working, etc. - and...  It booted into “GNU GRUB version 2.02”  I tried to restart my mac keeping “option” pressed, but it could only find the “EFI Boot” disk (picture attached) which is the one I usually select to boot Ubuntu. Also, Ubuntu now doesn’t even work anymore, because if I select “EFI Boot” it starts “GNU GRUB version 2.02”.  Now I really started panicking, I don’t care about data of the ~50 GB ubuntu partition, but so foolishly I haven’t backed up the ~200 GB macOS data, and I am just so affectionate to them, I would really like to recover them.  Data Recap   15” Macbook Pro mid-2015 Right now I am booting from the network. 256 GB SSD partitioned in: ~200 GB APFS macOS partition - FileVault encrypted - running Mojave 10.14 ~50 GB ubuntu partition - don’t remember the file system (data here doesm’t matter to me)   Photos Attached   diskutil list gpt -r show /dev/disk1 disk1 information from Disk Utility Disk Utility overview of the physical disk booting situation with only the “EFI Boot” partition   Why my situation is different  My situation is different from other questions because of 3 reasons:   The ~50 GB ubuntu partition is disappeared, maybe corrupted, indeed if you add up all the disk's size in diskutil list, you still miss ~50 GB. I have 2 disks at the same time (index 2 and index 3) that are in the FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF status When I call gpt -r show /dev/disk1 I don't get any "Suspicious MBR at sector 0" message unlike others users that wrote other questions.   Update 1  I just wanted to confirm that I am booting the mac from Network Recovery and also my Disk Utility version. Disk Utility Version is: "Version 13 (606)" - "Copyright 2002-2014 Apple Inc.". Is seems, indeed, pretty old.
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