I keep an external hard drive permanently attached to my 2012 iMac and use Time Machine to backup every day. However, I recently noticed that in addition to the backups folder on the drive, there was also a lost+found folder. It has a massive amount of data in it supposedly (>100GB) and was apparently created on December 8th. Does anyone know why there would be a lost+found folder on my backup drive?
I have tested my computer by disconnecting the drive and restarting the Mac, and everything seems to function as normal. Is there any reason to believe deleting these files or formatting the external drive would have any effect on my internal drive and data?
I have tested my computer by disconnecting the drive and restarting the Mac, and everything seems to function as normal. Is there any reason to believe deleting these files or formatting the external drive would have any effect on my internal drive and data?