Micro SD Card turned folders into Unix Executable Files

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Micro SD Card turned folders into Unix Executable Files

I bought a micro SD card for my Macbook Pro (El Capitan) to give additional storage; it goes into the SD car slot with an adaptor.

I moved a folder of my photos to this card a while ago. I just went to view photos and some of the folders are showing as Unix Executable files.

Each folder is a year of photos. This SD card has never been used in a Windows machine, I bought it for this Mac and it's only been used in this.

If I open one of these files, I get a notepad with a message about saving and truncating files.

Have I lost all of these folders, and the photos and videos within them?

Thanks for your help.

Gordon

Posted on Aug 27, 2016 12:46 PM

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gcl2904 Author

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Sep 17, 2016 7:22 PM in response to Eric Root

Hi Eric, thanks for the reply. Sorry it's taken so long.

I tried to copy the folders back to my Mac, but they just show the same, as Unix Executable Files. The are each zero bytes. I can't understand why the SD card would change the folder with all the jpg files and videos into this Unix Executable File that has nothing in it. I fear I have lost all of my photos from the last 6 years.

Here is the info for the SD card, it's MS-DOS (FAT-32).

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gcl2904 Author

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Sep 17, 2016 7:37 PM in response to Eric Root

Also, I have Parallels on my Mac, although these folders and photos have never been on there, always on the Mac side. I just tried copying one of these folders on the SD card (now a Unix Executable File) onto Parallels to see if that helped, but it just created a blank Excel spreadsheet with the same name as the original folder.