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Problem viewing files on my external hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="usagora" data-source="post: 1807787" data-attributes="member: 60390"><p>So is this external HD is purely backup of your internal HD or are there other files on it that aren't on your internal HD? If you already have all these files on your internal HD, my advice would be to simply get a new hard drive, as this one obviously has issues and even if you get it working again, how confident are you going to be to continue using it? However, if there are files on it that are your only copy, obviously you're going to want to try everything you can to recover them. </p><p></p><p>I'm not at my Mac right now and haven't needed to access my external HD through Terminal before, so I'll defer to someone else on how to navigate to the drive properly in Terminal (I googled it, but was getting conflicting info on the proper commands and process). However, I did find this video, which you may want to try. I know you said the external HD showed up on your desktop, but you said it wouldn't let you eject it properly. I'd be curious if trying to unmount/mount it through terminal would work?</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]ikZc3RUp_Dc[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="usagora, post: 1807787, member: 60390"] So is this external HD is purely backup of your internal HD or are there other files on it that aren't on your internal HD? If you already have all these files on your internal HD, my advice would be to simply get a new hard drive, as this one obviously has issues and even if you get it working again, how confident are you going to be to continue using it? However, if there are files on it that are your only copy, obviously you're going to want to try everything you can to recover them. I'm not at my Mac right now and haven't needed to access my external HD through Terminal before, so I'll defer to someone else on how to navigate to the drive properly in Terminal (I googled it, but was getting conflicting info on the proper commands and process). However, I did find this video, which you may want to try. I know you said the external HD showed up on your desktop, but you said it wouldn't let you eject it properly. I'd be curious if trying to unmount/mount it through terminal would work? [MEDIA=youtube]ikZc3RUp_Dc[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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