External drive drive shows empty and 890 MB of files
So I bought a 2tb external drive to save space on my main drive - I copied all my movies and have been dropping a bunch of mini dv tapes onto it - but when I open the drive none of them show up
When I get info in disk utility I get one that shows I have avaialble 1.99TB of 2 TB - and right below it says 890 MB are used - don't get it
Tried the disk utility and it says they are working fine .... repair did not seem to do anything
Got it sorry - so this is what I get
drwxrwxr-x 10 bgroom bgroom 408 Jun 8 22:41 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 6 root admin 204 Jun 8 22:35 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 bgroom bgroom 15364 Jun 8 18:50 .DS_Store
drwx------ 3 bgroom bgroom 102 Dec 11 2010 .Spotlight-V100
-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 bgroom bgroom 208712 Apr 7 2011 .SymAVx86QSFile
d-wx-wx-wt 3 bgroom bgroom 102 Jun 8 22:23 .Trashes
drwx------ 11 bgroom bgroom 374 Jun 8 22:22 .fseventsd
drwxrwxrwx 5 bgroom bgroom 170 J un 8 22:41 DataRescueWorkspace
last bit is a file from a demo version of that software I had tried just to see if it recognized anything on the disk -
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