Old internal drive not showing data.

[AppleBlaster]

Hello

Excited to make my first post here regarding my MacBook Pro.

It is an older MacBook... I think from 2012. And I upgraded it to a 1TB SSD. I placed the old drive in an enclosure so that I could plug in and retrieve old data as necessary.

The drive mounts and reports that 268GB of the 500GB is available. But finder doesn't show any of the directory tree.

Can someone please explain to me why I am unable to see the files?

Thank you in advance.

 

[Fishrrman]

What is the drive's format?
HFS+ or APFS?

Have you tried disk utility's "first aid" function on it?

If the drive is HFS+, have you tried any 3rd-party drive repair utilities on it?

 

[AppleBlaster]

What is the drive's format?
HFS+ or APFS?

Have you tried disk utility's "first aid" function on it?

If the drive is HFS+, have you tried any 3rd-party drive repair utilities on it?

Hello and thank you for the reply!

I've found that Command+Shift+Period will unhide the files. But now, while the directory tree is visible, the file folders are a faded out blue, and not the typical blue.

Can you please explain what this means?

Thank you.

 

[Fishrrman]

The Mac OS normally keeps some folders and files "invisible", because the user doesn't need to see them. That what the command-shift-period is used for -- to toggle visibility (of the normally-invisible files) on and off.

I can't answer about the "faded out blue" folders.
Do you use iCloud?
Could they have something to do with that?

(I don't use iCloud -- AT ALL -- and have no ability to answer questions about it)