When I look in Smartware, it shows “Additional files: 279GB” which is my stuff! The application is damaged.” And now… even the Virtual Smartware CD appears to be EMPTY. If I try to run anything on the Virtual Smartware CD, it would say “There is an error.

If I try to check the disk, it gets to 90% and says it was cancelled, though I cancelled nothing. Then I tried EVERYTHING, starting with Smartware, which failed. Then they were there but they were empty. According to the system, 290GB was indeed used… all the files I copied over… but they were no longer available. But wait! I checked again later and the folders were there, but they were all empty. I copied some MP3s over and… poof… I got a message saying that the folder was unavailable.I opened up the folder (it did still exist) and now it was empty. I was opening files and not having problems. Here is what happened: All of the files copied onto the drive nicely. I’ve got a backup elsewhere, but it is from 6 months or more ago. Well, in that briefest of moments, the drive failed. For a brief moment in time, every important file in my life existed only on the 1TB My Passport. So, I started moving files around between drives. I decided that this drive was so good-looking and so small and had such capacity that I wanted it to be my main drive and I would backup to my other drive. I brought it home and started figuring out a new backup scheme. I bought this drive on Friday afternoon of last week. I’m on a MacBook Pro 5,1 running Snow Leopard.

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