Photo files show 0kB. How to recover?

Hi,

I store my photo's on a NAS (dual drive synology with RAID 1). but also had most of the pics copied on to a USB HDD. I'm trying to move off the NAS cause it's just flaky and very difficult to do anything with (synology. but that's another discussion). I did two things, and not sure in which order. This was on or about Nov 28.

1) copied using windows explorer to a PC

2) ftp'd using filezilla to the USB drive (goal here was to use FZ's feature of not overwriting files that already exist on the target drive).

Now a large number of my files of 0kB on ALL locations. I have NO CLUE how that could happen. The directory tree is good. In some folders, some files are fine and others are 0kB (can't be read/displayed). These 0KB files all have a green dot next to them implying recovery is likely.

I ran recuva deep scan on the USB drive checking all the boxes except the hidden folder one. 3 hours later (300BG drive), it found them all but says it can't recover zero size files. Note these are all photo's so we're looking at something like 8M max files size.

I tried Recuva on one of the drives of the RAID (attached to a USB) but it could not recognize the file system so I'm trying another solution on that one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanx,

Monte

If the files are now zero bytes, were they full size after the copy? Were they ever full sized? Are the files copied to the pc zero bytes?

Recuva will show a red dot against zero-byte files. I don't know how you can get a green dot.

A deep scan will not find zero-bytes files as they don't exist as a separate cluster. (As deep scan runs a normal scan first you will still see the zero-byte files from that.)

The upshot is that I don't know what happened, and you can't recover zero-byte files. Are the files still on your NAS?