external hard drive trash files not visible

[apgriff]

Hi there,

I have been using an external hard drive to organise some photos, its formatted NTFS I think as I can read it on my macbook and PC.
I have been viewing pics in a finder window and deleting unwanted with the F5 button.
I think I may have pressed it too often and deleted the folder containing all the pics! I cant see the folder in the trash and find that anything I now delete does not appear in the trash although older files and folders are there.
Am I able to get this back?

thanks for any suggestions

 

[oldscribe]

Hi,

I take it that you still have the external drive plugged when deleting the trash?

 

[apgriff]

Took a lot of googling but found answer. Connected hard drive to windows and ran chkdsk, all folders could then be seen in trash and from there moved to original place.
Thanks

 

[Kaveman]

The Mac can not normally write to NTFS, so it can't delete or more files without 3rd party software.

 

[apgriff]

I use paragon, haven't had any problems before this, still using it the same

 

[Kaveman]

That makes a lot more sense, as the Mac could not do what you said. So it was a Paragon problem, check there forums and or log a bug with them.