Did I do something wrong looking up Journalling in Wikipedia and copying and pasting the definition here? I am not sure I understand the last few posts on this thread.
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Please help me! Lost 400GB of images!
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Did I do something wrong looking up Journalling in Wikipedia and copying and pasting the definition here? I am not sure I understand the last few posts on this thread.
There was absolutely nothing wrong with your quotation of Wikipedia.
That was basically what the moderator, xUKHCx, was explaining to the troll who made the snide remark.
I'm very glad to hear you've gotten a grip on the advantages of journaled file systems. By the way, your photography is awesome.
lol alright guys lets all breathe here.
Wikipedia can be extremely useful and i use it for basically everything i need a quick understanding to. second lets get back to the main issue here which is helping a fellow mac user get his work back and make sure it doesnt happen to him or anyone else again or at the very least have this forum be a useful tool for someone in the future with this problem to find a solution. that said im pretty sure i couldn't offer any advice that hasn't been given (countless software options, take it to a genius/data recovery company). I hope everything works out and though its easy to blame your new mac i hope you understand that this could have happened to a new mac user or a user of 15 years, it was just bad luck and im sure 99% of the mac users you'll speak to never have or hopefully never will have this problem.
Wikipedia can be extremely useful and i use it for basically everything i need a quick understanding to. second lets get back to the main issue here which is helping a fellow mac user get his work back and make sure it doesnt happen to him or anyone else again or at the very least have this forum be a useful tool for someone in the future with this problem to find a solution. that said im pretty sure i couldn't offer any advice that hasn't been given (countless software options, take it to a genius/data recovery company). I hope everything works out and though its easy to blame your new mac i hope you understand that this could have happened to a new mac user or a user of 15 years, it was just bad luck and im sure 99% of the mac users you'll speak to never have or hopefully never will have this problem.
My Mac crashed few minutes ago and I had to do a hard reboot.
After it came back, my external hard drive - which has more than 400GB of pictures in 6 folders - now shows only one of the folders and one folder with 0 bytes with weird characters as name...
Is there a way to recover?
have you tried plugging the external into an XP machine? It's possible it was formatted as NTFS, which can cause problems with HFS+, since the two file systems don't play very well together.
what I'm getting at is that it might simply be a file system incompatibility, and that the Mac can't read the contents of the external because of it. I'd definitely try that before I took it to a data recovery place. It won't cause any further harm, and it's at least worth a shot.