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missing files

  1. Chria James

    Time Machine discrepency

    IMac running Monterey. I can open Time Machine from two locations, one from the top menu icon to the TM itself and one via a desktop icon opening to a finder window that shows the files. I was trying to restore a damaged external drive. I have TM set to back up my three external drives (one had...
  2. T

    Resolved Catalina_update_Two_drives_HD_and_HD Data_files_gone_HELP!

    Dear all, I have updated Catalina on I mac and unfortunately I did not make any backup. After updating all the files are gone. I have visible two drives now, one is Macintosh HD and another is Macintosh HD Data. It looks like all the data is on Macintosh HD Data drive but I can't access this...
  3. R

    Home says I have 26gb but only 16gb inside?

    Ok, so I've run into the problem of the dreaded 'Phantom Files'... I've recently done a big spring clean on my Macbook Pro running el Capitan 10.11.6 I've clicked on get info on my mac home icon and it says 26.gb, but when I click through and click get info on all the associated files, only...
  4. N

    Lost files after El Capitan update?

    I recently updated to El Capitan after the constant notifications from Apple borderline forcing me to do so. It has performed quite well other than a few app incompatibility issues but they should be fixed by developers. Today however I ran into an issue when trying to watch a film, I went to...
  5. K

    Missing iTunes music files

    Hello all, really hoping someone here can help me out as this is a nightmare issue for me. Yesterday I started noticing that certain files on my albums were going missing from iTunes (with the exclamation mark), and I cannot locate them in the folders where they are supposed to be, or anywhere...
  6. metamaestro

    Newly created files disappear

    Three days ago, I created a new folder with 10 files in PhotoShop CC 2015. These files were created on one of three internal, data-only drives. I have a MacPro running OSX 10.9.5, with 14gbs or RAM. Yesterday, I opened Photoshop to look at these files. They all are listed in Photoshop's...