Good Check Disk for Mac

jacknife

I copied files from my mac book pro to an external harddrive but i cannot see them, when i go to copy the files again i get the message replace despite the fact i cannot see the files.

I opened the hardrive on a windows and the folder the files are stored in will not open

There must be some corruption, i tried the mac scan disk and it did not fix the problem, is there any software to repair the damaged files so i can see them?

ZENER

Can you use the Terminal to see the files or directories ? Have you tried repairing permissions ?

How is the external drive formatted ? HFS - NTFS or FAT ?

Ken

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jacknife

ZENER wrote: »

Can you use the Terminal to see the files or directories ? Have you tried repairing permissions ?

How is the external drive formatted ? HFS - NTFS or FAT ?

Ken

Hi Ken,

Thanks for your reply, its NTFS

No I cannot see the files or folders, but when i go to drag files into the drive that i cannot see i get the message to replace them

I've tried the check on disk utility and it picked up nothing

ZENER

By default Macs can't write to NTFS drives, do you have any utilities installed to allow this ?

Ken

jacknife

ZENER wrote: »

By default Macs can't write to NTFS drives, do you have any utilities installed to allow this ?

Ken

Yes I use the program Mounty allows write to NTFS on mac, works fine

I got the software wondershare data recovery and did a scan and can see the files in the dialog box, need to purchase the full program to do a recovery

jacknife

just found a great free software called Lazesoft Recovery, worked great and i was able to recover the corrupted files

http://www.macdatarecoveryfreeware.com/index.html

Thanks for the reply