Lost Photos

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1

I have been manually copying photos from my Mac hard drive over to My Passport Essentials.  When I recently went to check the hard drive there were a year’s worth of photos missing but I am not sure how.

Is there any way to recover these files from the hard drive or establish why they might have been erased?

2

gbitaraf,

This is most unfortunate. In order to better assist, then a key question would be how exactly were you actually copying the pictures into your external disk unit?

3

I was manually copying the photos across using copy and paste from my Mac hard drive.

4

gbitaraf,

Did this happen after updating the system to Mac OS Mavericks? There are several reports of the update erasing files from external disk drives from different manufacturers.

5

No, I upgraded just after I noticed the photos were lost.

6

You can recover lost photos from WD my passport with some data recovery software, see this guide: WD data recovery

hope this helps.