I purchased a 500GB Seagate external desktop drive about 2 months ago to use it with my mac. I had about half of the capacity used, and today noticed that at least 40GB of avi files is missing. They were in subfolders in a directory that just doesn't show them in the finder, although there are other files in the directory that show. I tried searching for them but came up with nothing. Even if they were moved to trash accidentally somehow I'm very certain I have not emptied it in weeks. Is there anything I can do to get the missing files back ? I think the green light in the drive was blinking repeatedly when I first discovered the problem, but now it blinks just occasionally while most of the time staying stable.

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I would try to uninstall the drive on the OS. Then re-start the computer. After the re-start, connect the drive and see if the drive re-installs itself.

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The easiest option is to fragment your hard drive and try to add it on a different computer to check if it has any errors incurring on it. run disk check utility. if that does not work too, better consult the outlet you bought it from and ask for a warantee if it still has.

get back to me if that did not work and we could try to find other alternatives.

thank you

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