re: Problem: Files/Folders not showing
Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 5:06 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mark
(1810 messages posted)
You have been very systematic in your approach, so the problem lies in the Download
folder. I would suggest that you go to that folder, right click on it, select properties
and check whether there is anything unusual displayed.
If you cannot find anything, copy the folder and see if the copy displays the same
problems.
Finally, check for spyware using the guidelines as set out here
On Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 10:21 am, Jenny wrote:
>:D Hi everyone! Anyone with any ideas of what to do would be very very helpful!
>
>I decided to add some music files to my D:\Jenny\My Music\Downloads folder when
I
>noticed that all of my files and folders that are labeled k-z are gone! All of the
>#-J folders are there, but who knows what happened to the k-z files! Anyway, I became
>worried about my itunes program and went to check some of the files that are "missing"
>and they play perfectly! So I assume that the files/folders are still there, yet
>I have no idea how to make them appear. Any ideas?
>
>ps. I checked the Recycle Bin and I checked "show hidden folders," yet no change.
>I also restarted the computer to only come up with no change.
>I then thought that maybe by searching for any of the k-z files/folders I would
find
>something, but the search came up with nothing.
>
>Since I have the theory that Windows is just not showing any of my k-z files/folders,
>I tried to save something in my D:\Jenny\My Music\Downloads folder under a name
that
>starts with m and it didn't show up. THEN I tried to save something with the letter
>b and it showed up! *sigh* This is getting so frustrating. :(
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