Q: HELP! Important files in folder changed to Unix Executable File.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

I had a lot of audio files recorded onto a USB stick in WAV format.

These were the live recordings of my band, which are to be mixed, and used as the audio for a promo video. (Video was filmed at the same gig).

The files were all fine, in 2 sub folders (one for each set). These sub folders were in a folder called USBMTK.

Last night, the USB stick got moved very slightly while I was listening to one of the files.

A box appeared saying 'Disk was not ejected correctly' or something similar along those lines. (The usual box that comes up if a USB stick is not ejected properly).

Since then, the folder that all the WAV files was in has been changed to a Unix Executable file, showing zero bytes.

Obviously, this is extremely stressful for me, as the whole video/audio project relies on these files. There is not another backup, as this was the first time of accessing them.

Can someone PLEASE help me to recover the WAV files from within the Unix Executable file?

How can it be opened, or changed back to the original folder?

I am on a macbook (mid 2015) running OSX 10.10.5 Yosemite.

The USB stick is a Samsung 128gb.

All help greatly appreciated.