Why would ai and pdf files instantly disappear on My Book external Drive

[howardss]

Please Help! I had been working on an illustrator file for 2 weeks and had it saved in my Mybook as a PDF and illustrator file. I went to email it but at 49 Meg it was too big to attach to my email. I tried saving it as a .eps and my computer completely froze so I had to restart the system. When I fired back up the shortcuts for my files were there but the originals are gone. I ran diagnostics, nothing. I tried to do a system restore, nothing. I tried to do a file recovery on one of the free trials, nothing.

[ludvig]

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[howardss]

I am very grateful for your advice. Thank you very much! The issue has been resolved.)