Mavericks Bug format external hard drive

Hi there
I've :
Nome modello:
MacBook Pro
Identificatore modello:
MacBookPro8,1
Nome processore:
Intel Core i5
Velocità processore:
2,3 GHz
Numero di processori:
1
Numero totale di Core:
2
Cache L2 (per Core):
256 KB
Cache L3:
3 MB
Memoria:
16 GB
Versione Boot ROM:
MBP81.0047.B27
Versione SMC (sistema):
1.68f99
Numero di serie (sistema):
C02FH3FKDH2L
Hardware UUID:
9CCB660F-35E8-5863-A8E2-BEDA127CA5C4
Sensore movimento improvviso:
Stato:
Abilitato
and a WD MyBook Studio 2 4Tb.
I've lost all my files, i'm very surprise and angry.
Applw can Help me?
Please let me know the best recovery app,
Thanks Emiliano

miglio74 wrote:
This problem is known with Seagate and Lacie too, I think that Apple can work better than this!!!
But this specific issue -- the sudden & unexpected reformat of external hard drives -- is linked to the presence of the WD utility software on Macs running OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
From page 3 of that WD discussions topic, one user reported that his Seagate & Lacie external drives were reformatted with partitions named "MyBook," a trade name for many WD external drives, so it seems very unlikely that anything in Mavericks itself is the cause.
Also consider these instructions for manual removal of the WD "SmartWare" from a WD Tech:
Run the SmartWare uninstaller application located in /Applications/
Using Apple’s Activity Monitor from /Applications/Utilities quit the following processes:
WDDMService
WD Quick View
SmartwareServerApp
Delete /Library/LaunchDeamons/com.wdc.WDDMService.plist (Entry that causes WDDM to start.)
Delete /Library/LaunchDeamons/com.wdc.WDSmartWareServer.plist (Entry that causes the SmartWare Server to start.)
Delete /Applications Support/WDSmartware (Removes all SmartWare support programs)
Delete /Application/WDSmartWare (SmartWare user interface)
Delete Library/Preferences/com.wdc.smartware.plist
From System Preferences->Users Login Items remove WDQuickview for all users. (Entry that runs WD Quick View when a user logs in. There should be a single entry for all users. Deleting it from one any account should remove it for all accounts.)
The two launch daemons & the login item cause the three named processes supplied by WD to run on demand in the background, so any as yet undetected incompatibilities they have with Mavericks could trigger the reformat, even if a user never intentionally uses the SmartWare interface or "quickview" service.
This is WD's code, not Apple's. It is WD's responsibility to fix it, although I'm sure Apple is doing everything it can to help with that.

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