The files inside a folder on my external hard drive are suddenly missing and have been replaced with a bunch of 0.index live.0 and tmp files. Has anyone had this issue and been able to get your files back?
Apple M1 Max
Monterey 12.6.3
If you have not already done so, I recommend you re-build the spotlight index of your entire Volume.
Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
Once completed (as indicated by spotlight able to search again) Try to Restore those files from a known-good backup.
Then observe to see whether they get clobbered again quickly. If they do, Apple Support needs to connect you with a specialist to investigate.
Do the files open?
How is the external drive formatted?
Did the external drive get connected to a Windows machine?
The old ones yeah, but are any new ones being created?
Can you trash or compress those folders as a test
Yes, trash them, but if worried right click the bunch of them then Compress.
You may have to rely on your backups then.
The files do not open.
The external drive is ExFAT
It was never connected to a Windows machine.
I should also mention that all other files on this drive seem to be fine. Only this particular folder has the issue.
I can't think of anything I did to cause this to happen. I've been using the drive with no issues up until yesterday when i went to access the folder to open the project file (Premiere Pro) the files were missing an the listed files above were in their place.
How can I fix it if it's temporary indexing. I have a mirrored redundancy and the same thing happened to the same folder today. It's so strange. I can't figure out what would cause it.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be looking for at the link you provided.
Hi there,
Thanks for following up and helping me through this nightmare. No new folders are being created. It looks like nothing is happening at all. Maybe I'm doing something incorrectly?
Are you suggesting I trash the folders that are on the drive?
You work together with the first responder toward a solution. You can point them to the great steps and documentation you have already taken, and posted results that are already on the forums. You point out that the steps you have already taken should have provided relief, but did not. (They generally use that documentation, but typically do not take our conclusions. They have their own more-rigorous processes.)
If your problem is not solved by the 'first responder', be polite and professional and insist they forward your case to a specialist. Agreeing that it is solved (or rolling over and playing dead) when NOT solved -- gets you nowhere.
Seems to do with Spotlight, possibly lost files or temporary indexing...
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solved-undoing-my-mistake-clover-config.260451/
It never did this before?
In think the only way would be to exclude then n the Spotlight Pref Pane.
Never happened before. I tried adding folder to Spotlight then remove it and nothing happens.
I've never seen, nor heard of them before. When you excluded the folders ^ returned them did you get any new ones?
When I added the folder and hit done nothing seemed to happen. I removed the folder and again, nada. 🤷
After I trash them, what should I do expect to happen?
Files inside folder have been replaced with a series of index files. Has anyone had this issue?
