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I have a 2 tb external hard drive (G Drive) that I use with my Macbook Pro (Retina, early 2015, running macOS Mojave ver 10.14) and it has been working perfectly for the last year and a half but all of a sudden it stopped showing my files. I plug in the hard drive and the mac recognizes the drive on my desktop but when I click on it, it appears as empty with no files or folders. The weird thing is that if I go to the about my mac tab and access storage, I can see that it only has 47.24 gb of free space. I can't access my drive in disk utility either to try and do first aid on it and it won't let me properly eject the drive either. Last night at one point I was able to access it in disk utility and perform the first aid and after that I was able to access my files so I quickly tried and back up some of my files on another external hard drive but most of the files wouldn't transfer coming up with an error saying that some of the files couldn't be read or written something to that extent. Most of my files are video files and I was able to play them all through VLC even the ones that wouldn't copy to the other external hard drive. I was then able to properly eject my 2 tb hard drive but today when I went to plug it back in to try and transfer more files, I again wasn't able to view my files or get disk utility to recognize it enough to perform first aid on it again. I have read many threads but all of the solutions tend to bowl down to leaving the external hard drive plugged into the mac for 10min-3hours (which doesn't seem to work in my case) or putting a command into terminal to view hidden files (that also doesn't really seem to be my problem). I have had other external hard drives go before but they got to the point where the mac wouldn't even recognize them, this problem of not being able to view my files I have never had before. Anyone have any other ideas? Thanks!