Files in my pen drive somehow turned into .Ink files.

Files in my pen drive somehow turned into .Ink files. They were working fine before that, and i only used my macbook. Did not copied any windows files and i didn't use a pc. How can i get my files back?

No, i don't have windows in my MB.
I did use this pen drive in a pc, but only to get some files that had nothing to do with the files that were already there. Do you think this may have turned my other files into .Ink files?

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