Smaller files like JPGs and PDFs seemed to be working, with occasional corruptions. None of the file names were there, which is very annoying, and most of the movies and TV show episodes were either gone or corrupted and can’t actually be played. So when I woke up this morning I started the actual recovery, and when I got home from work it had finished. First it has to index everything, which takes several hours, then it shows you a list of what you can supposedly recover (although many of those could actually be corrupted). I then ejected the drive and connected it to my Windows desktop, and started running Recuva overnight. I’ve got Paragon’s extFS for Mac, so I could see the drive was ext3 and that it showed up as 3 mounted partitions, but the drive was completely empty, other than the generic setup file structure (which was actually slightly different than I’d ever see it–I’ve never before noticed a “TimeMachineBackup” or “SmartWare” folders on there, but maybe I deleted them years ago and forgot). I noticed the normally-almost-full drive was empty when I got home from work last night (Wednesday around 6 PM CDT), so I took the drive out of its casing and plugged it into my late-2013 MacBook Pro using a SATA-to-USB. Longer version - I’m in the US/Tennessee, and I had the same problem. TL DR - I tried Recuva, it got a lot of stuff, but a lot of things are corrupted, especially larger files (my drive mostly had movies and TV shows)
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