External hard drive has lost all its data

[fredd bear]

About a year ago, I bought a  LACIE 500Gb external hard drive, I wanted to have a drive which used an external power source.

Used it for larger files, mainly videos, a total of about 350GB

Had not used it for about 6 months.

Yesterday,I attached it to my Imac. When I opened it, the only thing showing was one folder; "BUDA"

As far as I'm aware it's unusual for a hard drive to suddenly delete everything.  That leads me to believe there is a software issue. That the files  are probably still there.

I also have a laptop, which runs Windows 10 and Linux Mint Cinnamon, as dual boot.. have also tried the Lacie drive on each OS. Same result.


Does anyone happen to know of any troubleshooting I can do?

Glad you're getting it sorted.  If it happens again, try whinging in a plaintive voice, 'Honey, how do I fix this?'  It works more often than it doesn't.

Boru

Who's Honey? My dog's name is Major, an unbelievably loud and distressingly  energetic Jack Russell terrier.

I have lived alone  for long time.

One benefit of living alone has been the eliminating the common learned helplessness of the Aussie male. Any problems, I go online.

Whirlpool Forum is especially helpful. However, on this occasion, the most practical help came from here. 


 The domestic blindness still needs work.