original media are now aliased

Unfortunately, no backup. I WAS working on this drive & project earlier today. A few hours ago at 2p.

Between then and now... all I have been doing is poking around the drive trying to find where my files are. And, currently running a scan.

I had this sort of happen to me before on a 4TB drive and had my drive corrupted due to connecting it to a Windows based machine. DriveSavers was able to recover my files, but for a hefty fee...

Well, looks like that may be my only option unless Stellar Recovery software can make some magic happen.

Will running scans ruin my drive? I think I ran a whole bunch on my old drive/issue and the recover service recovered everything which was great.

Okay. Well maybe I’ll be in luck then.

Since 2p, I haven’t saved anything on there. Also, this Lacie drive is pretty new.

There are literally only two final cut projects on this drive. Roughly 100-120gb total (should be. There’s 86gb for one project. I’m assuming 40-60gb more for the missing files).

My drive external drive is at DriveSavers now... I have my fingers crossed that they can find the original media.

My cousin and I tried to find it for a couple hours with no luck. Only the 'aliased' files that point to empty folders. I just dont understand why it would get deleted.

Update..

DriveSavers couldn't recover media from that project. So, it turns out that FCPX somehow deleted my media when this 'move' was happening.

How? No idea.

Weird and very disappointed that it would do this all because of the ExFAT drive format.

Terrible.

It’s an exFAT drive.

I am currently running a deep recovery scan on it at the moment. I noticed this happen to another project too... but, fortunately that project was already complete.

No! Wow... is there even a possibility to recover these files?! Or am I out of luck at this point?!