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Problem viewing files on my external hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="uncleebenz" data-source="post: 1807872" data-attributes="member: 401300"><p>So the final update: I was probably able to salvage about 75% of my files uncorrupted. Using the <strong>Terminal</strong> commands I was able to get additional files but as we had suspected, if they didn't transfer over with <strong>Finder </strong> then when they were forced over using <strong>Terminal</strong> they came corrupted (ex. A movie file would play but at some point would hit the corrupted part and stop playing). The weird thing, for me, is that those same "corrupted" files work perfectly fine when playing them directly off the "corrupted" external HD. If anyone has any thoughts as to what this means I'd love to understand. Also my external HD seems to be working normally after performing about 3-5 <strong>First Aid's</strong> on it (ex. All my files are visible through finder, it ejects properly, disk utility recognizes it and can interact with it, ect). The only thing it isn't doing normally is the transfer of certain files saying they can't be written or read. As stated before in the thread, I have backed up what I could and won't be trusting this external HD anymore even though it seems to be responding "normally". If anyone has any more thoughts or explanations I would love to learn more! Thanks for everyone's help!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="uncleebenz, post: 1807872, member: 401300"] So the final update: I was probably able to salvage about 75% of my files uncorrupted. Using the [B]Terminal[/B] commands I was able to get additional files but as we had suspected, if they didn't transfer over with [B]Finder [/B] then when they were forced over using [B]Terminal[/B] they came corrupted (ex. A movie file would play but at some point would hit the corrupted part and stop playing). The weird thing, for me, is that those same "corrupted" files work perfectly fine when playing them directly off the "corrupted" external HD. If anyone has any thoughts as to what this means I'd love to understand. Also my external HD seems to be working normally after performing about 3-5 [B]First Aid's[/B] on it (ex. All my files are visible through finder, it ejects properly, disk utility recognizes it and can interact with it, ect). The only thing it isn't doing normally is the transfer of certain files saying they can't be written or read. As stated before in the thread, I have backed up what I could and won't be trusting this external HD anymore even though it seems to be responding "normally". If anyone has any more thoughts or explanations I would love to learn more! Thanks for everyone's help! [/QUOTE]
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