My Passport For Mac Shows Empty On Windows

Hey guys, I'm new to this forum here, but I really need some insight into a huge problem I am having as of late. Add calendar dropdown box in word for mac developer tools. I'm running a Macbook Pro, and have a Seagate External Hard Drive connected to it. On the drive I have tons of movies, tons of music, and a bunch of photography.

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About a week ago I noticed that one of the folders with my photography was empty. None of the hard drive space was changed, but upon opening the folder it contained no files, they had disappeared. Now two days ago, I went to open up the expansion drive, and ALL of the files had disappeared.

But again, no space on the hard drive has changed. Weirdly enough, all of my music I have on that external i had previously added to my itunes library. When I open up itunes, I can play all my music, but when I open up the expansion drive, they have all disappeard?! I searched everywhere for an answer to this issue online but have not found anything to help me. I'm a photographer and I have some major projects on there I need to get finished. If anyone could help me with this, I would be forever grateful!

I had the very same issue with Seagate plus 2TB which was formatted in NTFS. All of a sudden around 800GB of data disappeared. The folder shows 0 bytes on disk. Disk utility on Mac didn't report any errors. This is what worked for me to completely recover the entire data. Plug the hard drive into windows PC. Windows popped up a message saying that there are problems with the disk and should be fixed.

Go ahead and allow windows to scan and fix the errors(looks like file indexes are messed up but Not bad sectors though). All my data can be accessed post fix. Hi Cory, Run Repair Disk: open Disk Utility > select your HD in the panel on the left side (the name of the external HD’s manufacturer and the model number) > click Repair Disk at bottom of main window. Run this at least twice, and keep running it until it says “appears ok” twice in a row.

If that doesn’t happen, you may need a stronger utility (such as DriveGenius, TechToolPro, DiskWarrior) or if the directory is damaged beyond repair, you may have a damaged HD which will need to be replaced (repair utilities can only repair the directory structure, not the HD itself). When this is finished, quit Disk Utility and see if your files are visible. Note: if you are lucky enough to make it through this with your files intact, and if your files are of value to you (it sounds like they are), you need to back them up on a second external HD; all HDs kept in use will fail, and no one can accurately predict when. Thanks for the reply!

I actually tried the disk utility before and it will not even give me the option to select verify disk, or repair disk. I noticed this even when the drive was working. As well i noticed, where you can select the preferences for the sidebar in the finder, they have the boxes to either show or hide an external drive, ipod, etc right. So when i deselect the option to view the external hard drive, it is still there. But when i delect the option to view ipod, then it goes away? Something really weird is going on here.

It cant be damaged because my music in itunes is still playing, but, i cannot view any of the files on there. I've been looking through a lot of this same issue here and elsewhere, and I'm appalled at the misdirection and finger-pointing that some people are throwing out. It is useful to run a Disk Repair, but when a file is missing, it's missing and you can't bring it back with a Disk Repair. Doing a Disk Repair might tell you that something was wrong with the directory structure that could have been involved in causing the files to disappear - but it doesn't help explain why files disappear when Disk Repair doesn't find anything wrong with the directory structure. And I've gone the extra step and used DiskWarrior to further test the drive. I'm running Lion on my iMac. Everything is always kept up to date.

10 best antivirus for mac. I recently discovered many missing files in my external drive. Here's the scenario: Folder A contains folders B, C, and D. There are files in all of A, B, C, and D. Suddenly, all files in B, C, and D disappeared.

A Disk Repair found nothing wrong with the drive. I have been involved with some of my clients who were running Snow Leopard. One of them lost dozens of photos from iPhoto, the other lost several different kinds of files from different places. I carefully examined their systems and could find nothing wrong, and my job is to know how to find a problem with a Mac and fix it.