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How to open a .Ink file/folder

Hi,

I have read all the blogs about this and I know that they are meant to be 'link' files but this cannot be. I have lots of folders on my hard drive, which included movies. It has worked on my mac for over 2 years now. I lent the hard drive to my friend and all he did was copy some movies (he does have windows though). He has returned the hard drive and now all my files end with .Ink and I now cannot open them.

I used another windows computer to check my hard drive and all my folders are there, so they are not short cuts but I cannot open them on the mac. I have some very important files on this hard drive and need to access them. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

.lnk files can only be opened on Windows computers

.lnk files are links to the actual file that is located on a Windows computer. If you have .lnk files someone or yourself sent you or copied what they thought were the movie, music, etc. files but in error only sent/copied links to those files.

All the files are my own files and no one has sent me them. These were all working a couple of days ago. I've got a feeling this is a virus but I just need to rectify the problem. If I can only open these files in windows, is there a way of opening them on there and doing something so I can use them on a mac?

I believe that this is related to a virus, but not a virus on your computer. Your friend's Windows machine is infected with a virus that did this. There is a solution to the problem, but you will need a Windows machine to fix it, to my knowledge. See:

https://joshtam.net/world/shortcut-ink-virus.html

That particular page refers to items being assigned a .ink extension (which could look like a .lnk extension if the 'i' is capitalized), but may also apply if the extension is actually .lnk. I'm not sure, though, as I don't do Windows.

Of course, if it just changed the extension on the file, you could always change it back to what it should be (or remove the extension altogether) and see if that fixes the problem.

This happened on my flashdrive. I tried to take off or change the extension but it kept saying that the file name was already taken.

When I did a search some of the stuff, folders and that, came up. So they are all still on there, just hidden.

Any clus on how to unhide them?  I just need to take off like 6 important files. Then I'll erase the flashdrive and re-format.

HELP!

(and thanks!)

Hey, It happened to me too.

I was reading this blog and trying everything to solve the problem.

Accidentaly I could recovered my files...

so here is what happened and how I solve my problem, hope it works for you as well.

I plugged the hard drive into my imac, at first the files ended with ".ink". I try to find solutions online but I did not find usefull solutions.

When I plugged the hard drive for the 5th time, the files were not in it. I thought I have erased them but those files still appeared in windows, so they were just hidden.

I plugged again into imac, and I just copy the hard drive (right click- copy "hard drive") them pasted on the desktop. I did this just to have a backup. But them It appeared the folder in Desktop, and I openned and the files where just fine.

I know it sounds lucky, or stupid. But it worked for me and I am sharing it, so may be it will work for you.

Sorry for my english, if I have mistakes.

Thanks a lot, this worked for me!

I have pathfinder and there is an option to view invisible files. Once I clicked that option I could see the files there and copied them to my hard drive (from the usb).

thankyou so much!

Thank you for the solution! It works!!! Thank YOU!

thank you very much

Thanks loads!

Thank you so much, man. I just got my usb infected and just by copying the drive works just fine. You saved my life! xD

I followed this page instructions: Restore missing files on USB and solve shortcut link file virus on Windows and MacOS | The Netizens

I opened the Terminal and typed:

$ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True

$ killall Finder

Then, I was able to see the hidden folders. So, I selected the .trash folder, made the Command + I key stroke, and gave me writing permissions to the folder. Afterwards, I was able to see all my stuff inside. I just put them where I wanted and that's all.

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