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.
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.
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.
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.