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Hey all
I had a ton of files on an external drive that have suddenly disappeared. The storage space on the HD suggests 99.7% of it is free....which suggest to me the files are gone and not hidden in some way. Anyway this could not be true? I have tried turning it off and back on again, I have tried restarted the computer. Any thoughts?
It was working fine for about 2 months and suddenly they just all disappeared. Interestingly enough I can save stuff to the hard drive now(suggesting it still works). I am quite certain I didn't accidentally delete 500GB worth of music/photos etc.
Fortunately this was kinda a backup(of sorts) so while I am very disappointed that I lost stuff I am not losing my mind.
Would love though if by some miracle someone could help me recover this (I don't know if this will make sense but I sorta had it organized in a different way as it was a backup)
but perhaps more importantly
What happened? I'd like to avoid this again.
I had a ton of files on an external drive that have suddenly disappeared. The storage space on the HD suggests 99.7% of it is free....which suggest to me the files are gone and not hidden in some way. Anyway this could not be true? I have tried turning it off and back on again, I have tried restarted the computer. Any thoughts?
It was working fine for about 2 months and suddenly they just all disappeared. Interestingly enough I can save stuff to the hard drive now(suggesting it still works). I am quite certain I didn't accidentally delete 500GB worth of music/photos etc.
Fortunately this was kinda a backup(of sorts) so while I am very disappointed that I lost stuff I am not losing my mind.
Would love though if by some miracle someone could help me recover this (I don't know if this will make sense but I sorta had it organized in a different way as it was a backup)
but perhaps more importantly
What happened? I'd like to avoid this again.