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re: Problem: Files/Folders not showing
Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 8:47 pm
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Posted by AnchorMan (1465 messages posted)


If, for some reason you have used the "xcopy" util. to move or copy files, this may be the culprit. Check off "show system files" along with "hidden files and folders" just to be sure.

AnchorMan


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. :(


Written in response to:
Problem: Files/Folders not showing (Jenny: Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 10:21 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Problem: Files/Folders not showing (Jenny: Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 2:11 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Problem: Files/Folders not showing (Jenny: Sat, Mar 18, 2006, 10:21 am)
*re: Problem: Files/Folders not showing (Mark: Sat, Mar 18, 2006, 5:06 pm)
-re: Problem: Files/Folders not showing (AnchorMan: Sat, Mar 18, 2006, 8:47 pm)
-re: Problem: Files/Folders not showing (Jenny: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 2:11 pm)
*re: Problem: Files/Folders not showing (AnchorMan: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 8:55 pm)
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