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My External Drive Is Hiding Its Contents!?
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<blockquote data-quote="getuptogetdown" data-source="post: 659329" data-attributes="member: 52268"><p>PLEASE reformat your drive to the mac format (NFS+) and find a work around if you need to transfer files from pc to mac like a zip drive or something. I was using an NTFS drive with 3g and I lost 13 thousand mp3s that I had stored on it! Luckily I had them on my ipod. Also, if you use another HD for time machine, it will look like it's backing up your NTFS HD but it really isn't...figured that out the hard way. When looking into this I found lots and lots of horror stories about it. Also, one major problem is if for whatever reason the drive doesn't eject properly it can mess everything up. I would say one thing you can try is plug it into a PC, eject it safely, then see if your files are there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="getuptogetdown, post: 659329, member: 52268"] PLEASE reformat your drive to the mac format (NFS+) and find a work around if you need to transfer files from pc to mac like a zip drive or something. I was using an NTFS drive with 3g and I lost 13 thousand mp3s that I had stored on it! Luckily I had them on my ipod. Also, if you use another HD for time machine, it will look like it's backing up your NTFS HD but it really isn't...figured that out the hard way. When looking into this I found lots and lots of horror stories about it. Also, one major problem is if for whatever reason the drive doesn't eject properly it can mess everything up. I would say one thing you can try is plug it into a PC, eject it safely, then see if your files are there. [/QUOTE]
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