I have a situation.. Mac/Time Machine/Movies Help!?
So…
Notes:
I’m using a Macbook Pro.
I had about 290 movies and tv shows.
I was trying to move all of my movies on to my external hard drive and I copied all of them (took two hours) on there. Then I deleted all but three of them off my computer and emptied the trash. I then look back at my hard drive’s files and they aren’t there!!! The only thing that was there was the 3 files.
But I also have time machine saved to update my external hard drive. It did and I can see the previous computer times/events/whatever you want to call it. I go to Hard drive>backups.backupdb>My Mac Book Pro>2010-05-04>Macintosh HD>Users>Me>Movies which only shows my iMovie library. I do the same thing but with Music>iTunes>iTunes media>movies to which only one file shows up!!!!
Please, please help me.
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First, are you looking in the right location? I would think that you are if you managed to delete them; but let’s double check.
Go into Spotlight and search for one or two of the movies you remember the filenames of. Spotlight is the magnifying glass icon at the top right of the screen, also accessible by holding "command" and hitting the space bar. If your movie files can be found on either the laptop hard drive or the external drive, then Spotlight should be able to find them for you.
The Mac OS is very secure about deleted files, it’s nearly impossible to recover deleted files. However, if your files were in your iTunes library, then they would not be in the folder you have described. They would be within your iTunes folder. (users/you/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Movies). Also, if you purchased those files from within iTunes, you should be able to redownload them for free.