Unable to Access External HD, truly appreciate your help!
Good evening everyone, thanks in advance for your response. I tried looking all over for an answer to my question so I wouldn't have to bother you, but was unable to find anything sufficient. I am running 10.6.8 and I've been using an external hard drive to store some of my work files. Usually, whenever I plug it in to the USB there is a message that asks something to the effect of whether I want to use it as a Mac External HD. I always click "decide later." Yesterday, I was trying to set up Time Machine and with just a few clicks (I don't remember exactly what I clicked), I am now unable to see the files in my External HD. When I try to open it, there is just a perpetual spinning grey circle at the bottom right of the finder window. I've tried looking around "Disk Utility" for an answer but don't know what to do now. I don't think the hard drive was reformatted / the files were deleted, because when I click info there is still the same amount of GB used as before. Does anyone know how I can revert back to the old setting or otherwise retrieve my files?
Thank you so much for your time and help! I really appreciate it.
Download Data Rescue and run that against the external drive and send the output to another drive. Pay the $100 if it can recover files.
Then once your files are safe (or not) then you can address the issue with the drive.
If you can't recover your files, call a lawyer to send a message to Apple about their automatic window poping up altering people's drives/destroying data when they accidentially click the wrong thing.
This is a widespread problem with them, they dumb down stuff and automate things to a fault.
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