Videos turned into jpeg when copied to hard drive - reversible?

I copied photo's and video's from my Iphone to an external hard drive a while ago. I lost all my photo's/video's in the cloud through a mix-up. But when I look at my video's on my hard drive they turned into jpegs?

Is there any way I can reverse this?

MacBook, macOS 10.15

Posted on Feb 19, 2021 3:04 AM

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Yer_Man

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Feb 19, 2021 5:44 AM in response to anneliesfromghnt

Sorry to bear bad news but no, there is no way to revert a Jpeg back to a video.

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