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Hi all!
Long time lurker, first time having this much of a melt down that I needed to post. I bought a 1TB WD external drive that I only ever used on Mac Pros in a film editing lab and my late 2008 MBP. My MBP filled up and started running annoyingly slow this past semester so I moved the majority of my computer's data over the the external drive by dragging the files I didn't need on my MBP all the time to free up some space, and it worked like a charm.
Everything was fine and dandy until my MBP started rebelling against me and demanded 3 trips to the Apple salon and spa.
Trip 1: Manually backed it up by just dragging everything over to the external drive. No problems there
Trip 2: Backed up using Time Machine. Again no problems, all files were intact on the external drive right next to the Time Machine folder.
Trip 3: Time Machine back up. Again, no problems.
I plug in the external drive, and the only thing there is the Time Machine back up folder, and the only file there is the most recent back up!
I always eject(ed) the drive properly and double checked that everything was as it should be before removing.
What the **** happened and is there ANYTHING I can do to restore over 8 years of data? Everyone always says to make sure you backup/store files in a safe place, and that's what I thought I had did!
Wisdom, advice, or directions to the nearest high cliff are greatly appreciated.
Long time lurker, first time having this much of a melt down that I needed to post. I bought a 1TB WD external drive that I only ever used on Mac Pros in a film editing lab and my late 2008 MBP. My MBP filled up and started running annoyingly slow this past semester so I moved the majority of my computer's data over the the external drive by dragging the files I didn't need on my MBP all the time to free up some space, and it worked like a charm.
Everything was fine and dandy until my MBP started rebelling against me and demanded 3 trips to the Apple salon and spa.
Trip 1: Manually backed it up by just dragging everything over to the external drive. No problems there
Trip 2: Backed up using Time Machine. Again no problems, all files were intact on the external drive right next to the Time Machine folder.
Trip 3: Time Machine back up. Again, no problems.
I plug in the external drive, and the only thing there is the Time Machine back up folder, and the only file there is the most recent back up!
I always eject(ed) the drive properly and double checked that everything was as it should be before removing.
What the **** happened and is there ANYTHING I can do to restore over 8 years of data? Everyone always says to make sure you backup/store files in a safe place, and that's what I thought I had did!
Wisdom, advice, or directions to the nearest high cliff are greatly appreciated.