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big sur reading file names wrong on external hard drive

I am searching through thousands of files on an external hard drive to copy the ones I need onto my computer. When I search the file name it will show up in the finder window, but it is the wrong file.


For example - I search for a photo pf a bike called "bike.jpg", the results pop up showing a file called "bike.jpg", however this file is actually a picture of a dog and should be named "dog.jpg". When I copy the file listed as "bike.jpg" onto my desktop, it renames it back to the correct name.


Basically when I am looking for a file the correct name shows up but the actual file is something completely different. Has anyone else come across this and figured out a way to fix it?

Posted on Dec 1, 2020 9:18 AM

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Posted on Jan 24, 2021 4:58 PM

Was anyone able to find a solution to this issue. Like Mikeley, I am having incorrect results show during search of my external drive. Navigating through folders is normal. But searches give incorrect file types. Very frustrating.

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big sur reading file names wrong on external hard drive

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