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I have lost access to thousands of important documents which I had backed up on to an external hard drive.
I have a HGST Touro 1 TB portable drive which I re-formatted to use on my MacBook Pro. I then copied all my work folder data onto the portable drive, triple checked that the files were there and could open from the drive source. It was all fine. Then ejected the disk properly and gave my laptop to our technician who was re-formatting them for our new server upgrade. When I got the laptop back (now erased), I went to re-install my work documents, but the main folder was missing. Used Disk Utility to check the drive - it said that everything seemed fine. However, it did say that there are over 1,700 folders and over 6,000 documents taking up 39 GB space. This is considerably more stuff than is actually visible on the drive. The only thing left of my "Work" folder is an alias folder. I can't see a list of my files anywhere, but INFO says they are there.
Help!!! Would really appreciate some advice on how I can locate these files and retrieve them.
I have a HGST Touro 1 TB portable drive which I re-formatted to use on my MacBook Pro. I then copied all my work folder data onto the portable drive, triple checked that the files were there and could open from the drive source. It was all fine. Then ejected the disk properly and gave my laptop to our technician who was re-formatting them for our new server upgrade. When I got the laptop back (now erased), I went to re-install my work documents, but the main folder was missing. Used Disk Utility to check the drive - it said that everything seemed fine. However, it did say that there are over 1,700 folders and over 6,000 documents taking up 39 GB space. This is considerably more stuff than is actually visible on the drive. The only thing left of my "Work" folder is an alias folder. I can't see a list of my files anywhere, but INFO says they are there.
Help!!! Would really appreciate some advice on how I can locate these files and retrieve them.