Did something dumb, help me b4 wife kills me

[dboods]

Alright, I'm a mac guy. I know I know. Anyway I was on my wife's computer trying to eject her external harddrive and I decide to drag it to the recycle bin (cause that's what we mac guys do). The next time I plug it in it tells me I need to initialize it to use it. I do not do this because I'm thinking I've got trouble. And I do have trouble cause the hard drive now says it needs to be initialized to use and it has a whole mess of files on it that aren't backed up anywhere else.

I am desperately hoping there is an easy fix for this. Please help.

you will be saving me grief.
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[Whyzman]

If you double-click on the recycle bin what does it show in there?

[Whyzman]

The recycle bin is not an automatic delete. You can restore what is located in there...until you empty the recycle bin...then there's trouble getting it back.