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External Samsung T3 SSD problem
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<blockquote data-quote="Chaver4u" data-source="post: 1859778" data-attributes="member: 404830"><p>Thinking back, the problem arose after upgrading to Catalina. I migrated all from my 2015 MacBookPro to my new 2020 MacBook Air. This is the only (very) serious issue I encountered. Everything else works perfectly. Also my other external SSD that I use as timemachine for my MacBook works perfectly.</p><p></p><p>It's only this darn Toshiba T3.</p><p>I actually see it is connected but I only showing Samsung setup apps of 31MB, not the 150GB stored data. </p><p>On Disk Utility I see the same. Just 31MB of data and it also shows the capacity of the SSD as 131MB, while the SSD capacity is 250GB.</p><p>It is formatted Fat32. I never did that unpurposely. Samsung set this automatically I assume. Some people advised me to reformat to HFS, but that would erase everything on the SSD.</p><p></p><p>I have tried several recovery apps but they don’t show more than what Disk Utility shows. Only one app (DiskDrill) shows after a deep scan 105MB of a few deleted folders, but not the 150GB data.</p><p></p><p>I tried on a friend's MacBookPro: same problem. Also that one has MacOS Catalina.</p><p></p><p>I am thinking about downgrading to Mojave and see what happens. I see however it's not that easy, but I will give it a try.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for all your advice. I hope to get this resolved</p><p></p><p>Rpbert</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaver4u, post: 1859778, member: 404830"] Thinking back, the problem arose after upgrading to Catalina. I migrated all from my 2015 MacBookPro to my new 2020 MacBook Air. This is the only (very) serious issue I encountered. Everything else works perfectly. Also my other external SSD that I use as timemachine for my MacBook works perfectly. It's only this darn Toshiba T3. I actually see it is connected but I only showing Samsung setup apps of 31MB, not the 150GB stored data. On Disk Utility I see the same. Just 31MB of data and it also shows the capacity of the SSD as 131MB, while the SSD capacity is 250GB. It is formatted Fat32. I never did that unpurposely. Samsung set this automatically I assume. Some people advised me to reformat to HFS, but that would erase everything on the SSD. I have tried several recovery apps but they don’t show more than what Disk Utility shows. Only one app (DiskDrill) shows after a deep scan 105MB of a few deleted folders, but not the 150GB data. I tried on a friend's MacBookPro: same problem. Also that one has MacOS Catalina. I am thinking about downgrading to Mojave and see what happens. I see however it's not that easy, but I will give it a try. Thanks for all your advice. I hope to get this resolved Rpbert [/QUOTE]
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