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I was trying to make my external NTFS drive writable on macOS BigSur and followed a post, so I wrote the following commands:

sudo umount /Volumes/Untitled
sudo mkdir /Volumes/Mount
sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw,auto,nobrowse /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/Mount
open /Volumes/Mount

After this, my files got mounted in the Mount folder but after a while, the folder disappeared and now if I access my Untitled drive, it shows the correct space, but can't see files anymore.

How can I fix it? I can't lose my files.

If I write diskutil list, I get this

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk3
   1:               Windows_NTFS                         1.0 TB     disk3s1

How can I recover the previous state where I can see my files? I'll just move them to another drive and format this one to a different file system.

agarza
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rita1989
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  • Welcome to Ask Different. 1) I'd recommend that you check your drive with a Windows computer, your drive's contents may be damaged (by default, macOS reads NTFS drives, but can't write to them. The command you used activates read-write access, which is undocumented and unsupported. If you need to write to your NTFS drive, I would strongly recommend that you use Paragon NTFS or some other software instead, see https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/130414/ntfs-drivers-on-mac for more information). 2) Is there a reason for using NTFS instead of APFS? – jaume Jul 23 '22 at 15:26
  • Also, "followed a post" -> can you please add/share the link to this post? – nohillside Jul 23 '22 at 15:48
  • checked with windows... and it won't open. Checked with parrot linux and still won't open... how can i save it?

    It just happened to be nfts cause the first time i used it on windows and i didn't worry much about it... I don't have the link to the post cause i have been googling a lot and it's lost in the history... how can i save my files? :(

     – rita1989 Jul 23 '22 at 18:51
  • I tried to access the disk with daisydisk and it gives me 900gb of hidden space... that is the amount of the files that i have. so it's like the files are there but for some reason are not visible... how can i recover them? – rita1989 Jul 23 '22 at 19:00
  • just tried to access from windows to do a chkdsk but it says can't access disk so can't do disk cleaning – rita1989 Jul 24 '22 at 10:56
  • with the volume mounted on your Mac open a terminal. type ls -al /Volumes/Mount and hit return. please post the output here. – slartibartfast Jul 25 '22 at 15:32
  • won't show mount anymore... it says ls: /Volumes/Mount: No such file or directory – rita1989 Jul 25 '22 at 18:03

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fixed using AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. Just had to run it, took a while but then it fixed my drive. I could access and save all my files!!!! saved 1tb of pics

rita1989
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