I have a WD My Passport external drive (1TB) hooked up to my mbp at all times. Yesterday I noticed that there was a strange file in the root of my mac partition of the drive with a file name consisting of what seemed like random numbers and letters, and deleted it because it checked out to be 0 KB in size. Apparently this was a big mistake. This morning i woke up to find that the drive filesystem was damaged and had an "incorrect number of thread records" according to disk utility. Disk Utility couldn't repair the drive so i repaired it with Disk Warrior.
Long story short, now there are THREE unidentified files on the root of the repaired drive.
6bc7deaf96776b6d3794e57d which holds
1.87.1764.0_to_1.87.1828.0_mpasdlta.vdm._p
1.87.1764.0_to_1.87.1828.0_mpasdlta.vdm._p~1
1.87.1764.0_to_1.87.1828.0_mpasdlta.vdm._p~2
MpMiniSigStub.exe (why is there an exe file?)
MpMiniSigStub.exe~1
ecf5978edf4885ed02dc64a754 which contains a zero KB folder called "Update"
and DamagedFiles which holds 5 aliases of files that can't be located (named similarly to contents above).
What are these folders? Even though they only add up to be a few KB, I am curious as to what these are, and if I can delete some of them from my root.
Thanks.
Long story short, now there are THREE unidentified files on the root of the repaired drive.
6bc7deaf96776b6d3794e57d which holds
1.87.1764.0_to_1.87.1828.0_mpasdlta.vdm._p
1.87.1764.0_to_1.87.1828.0_mpasdlta.vdm._p~1
1.87.1764.0_to_1.87.1828.0_mpasdlta.vdm._p~2
MpMiniSigStub.exe (why is there an exe file?)
MpMiniSigStub.exe~1
ecf5978edf4885ed02dc64a754 which contains a zero KB folder called "Update"
and DamagedFiles which holds 5 aliases of files that can't be located (named similarly to contents above).
What are these folders? Even though they only add up to be a few KB, I am curious as to what these are, and if I can delete some of them from my root.
Thanks.