Someone else said an iPad works in recognizing/accessing data from the ext drive, if you can plug it into that, but I don't have an iPad, so I can not confirm. I had to take my ext drive in for recovery, which I could not really afford to do at the time. I hope an Apple fix is manifested soon. I believe Apple will come through. They generally do in time. Good luck with your immediate issue.
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