How to open a .Ink file/folder

Hey,

I just I just had this problem today. The quick fix-it is to open the drive, then Command-shift-period to show hidden files. You then should she several grey-out folders, click on the one that says Drive. Your files should be there. If not check if they're in any of the other greyed out folders. This problem happens a lot when transferring files from a Windows to Mac. Hope this helps.

Follow these steps:

1. Right-Click on your USB flash drive icon
2. From the menu, select and click "Duplicate" option
3. This will copy your USB drive to your desktop in the form of a folder
4. The contents of your infected USB drive should become visible and operable now

Hey, It happened to me too.

I was reading this blog and trying everything to solve the problem.

Accidentaly I could recovered my files...

so here is what happened and how I solve my problem, hope it works for you as well.

I plugged the hard drive into my imac, at first the files ended with ".ink". I try to find solutions online but I did not find usefull solutions.

When I plugged the hard drive for the 5th time, the files were not in it. I thought I have erased them but those files still appeared in windows, so they were just hidden.

I plugged again into imac, and I just copy the hard drive (right click- copy "hard drive") them pasted on the desktop. I did this just to have a backup. But them It appeared the folder in Desktop, and I openned and the files where just fine.

I know it sounds lucky, or stupid. But it worked for me and I am sharing it, so may be it will work for you.

Sorry for my english, if I have mistakes.

.lnk files are links to the actual file that is located on a Windows computer. If you have .lnk files someone or yourself sent you or copied what they thought were the movie, music, etc. files but in error only sent/copied links to those files.

.lnk files can only be opened on Windows computers

I believe that this is related to a virus, but not a virus on your computer. Your friend's Windows machine is infected with a virus that did this. There is a solution to the problem, but you will need a Windows machine to fix it, to my knowledge. See:

http://joshtam.net/world/shortcut-ink-virus.html

That particular page refers to items being assigned a .ink extension (which could look like a .lnk extension if the 'i' is capitalized), but may also apply if the extension is actually .lnk. I'm not sure, though, as I don't do Windows. 🙂

Of course, if it just changed the extension on the file, you could always change it back to what it should be (or remove the extension altogether) and see if that fixes the problem.

This happened on my flashdrive. I tried to take off or change the extension but it kept saying that the file name was already taken.

When I did a search some of the stuff, folders and that, came up. So they are all still on there, just hidden.

Any clus on how to unhide them? I just need to take off like 6 important files. Then I'll erase the flashdrive and re-format.

HELP!

(and thanks!)

Thanks a lot, this worked for me!

I have pathfinder and there is an option to view invisible files. Once I clicked that option I could see the files there and copied them to my hard drive (from the usb).

thankyou so much!

Thank you for the solution! It works!!! Thank YOU!

thank you very much 🙂

Thanks loads!

Thank you so much, man. I just got my usb infected and just by copying the drive works just fine. You saved my life! xD