I deleted something in my external HD that I want to recover. i haven't emptied the trash on my mac so it hasn't been deleted yet. However, unlike my Mac, I can't seem to find the trash on my external. How can I view trash on it?
I deleted something in my external HD that I want to recover. i haven't emptied the trash on my mac so it hasn't been deleted yet. However, unlike my Mac, I can't seem to find the trash on my external. How can I view trash on it?
When you delete something from your external HD it goes onto the trash on your internal HD. So just go into the trash on your mac and recover it.
It's there - try /Volumes/<name of external>/.Trash. Open up a Finder window, push Shift-Command-G and enter the directory of your external (while it's plugged in of course). So, if your external was called "myextdrive", you would enter /Volumes/myextdrive/.Trash
Here is a video about recovering data from emptied Trash on Mac, also works with your external Hard drive
youtu.be/nvsvoGL0_YA
No point in sorting it out Rod. It's a zombie thread over 5 years old.