turned on my pc and tried mounting my external hdd, and suddenly it made 3 copies of itself and moved all its contents into the last one.
all the files and whatever are still there, but the issue is now all of the folder links i'd made and torrents i'd been downloading point to the wrong folder which would take forever to change manually.

what the fuck happened? i'm on kubuntu and the hdd is just a regular 8TB western digital