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madhouserevival:
Don't know what happened, but I had a special folder I just used earlier today where I kept all my tweaking and repair software. Then about an hour ago I'm missing all files inside the folder as well as in all of it's sub folders. I've taken Ownership, checked security options, made sure I have full control over the folders. I tried exploring it from another operating system and all the folders are still empty.  I even ran a file recovery program and it didn't show any of the files the folders previously contained, which is impossible unless they are hidden even from the recovery software (Easeus Data Recovery Wizard, old and new versions). I am dumbfounded. Now I'm missing tons of resources I access frequently.  I'm uploading a short video where I show just a small selection of "empty" folders. (BTW if I try to attach the video the whole thread resets)

Hope you can help. Coincidentally, not long before this happened today I ran the Windows Repair All In One program to reset file and registry permissions to fix something else I can't even remember now, but I can't imagine that it would target that one folder and it's subdirectories and not any of the other stuff on that drive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6W0aAt100U&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Shane:
The permissions wouldnt have done that as it is just setting permissions and none of my repair deletes any files.

Try this, I noticed you are using the libraries section on the right. Try going to the download folder directly, Open computer then go to C:\Users\Your Username\Downloads

Reason why is the libraries section will add multiple locations, so I just want to make sure that simply isnt something wrong with that, so check the folder directly and lets go from there :wink:

Shane

madhouserevival:
Already did that. Plus, it's also missing if I boot up my other OS (both Windows 7, only the newly installed one is on my SSD). Just boggles my mind. There must be some weird low level hidden flag but I've no idea how to find it. No other folders surrounding the "MicrosoftTweaks" folder are missing files. It's bizarre!

Shane:
Is there anything else in the downloads folder or is all the files gone? Reason why I ask is it may have been something that targeted the downloads folder and to clear it out. Dont know of any programs that do that on purpose though.

There are some programs that clean up things based on file names but again none that I can think of that would have done that.

Have you done a full system search for any of the file names that where in there just to see if somehow they got moved? And if you havent yet run a chkdsk on the drive just to make sure the file system is ok.

it is time for dinner and to spend time with the kids so I will be back tomorrow :-)

Night!

Shane

madhouserevival:
I never use the default location for downloads. I've always used a separate hard drive for those for quite a long time, especially since my system drive has been an SSD. Believe me, I've searched every thing. :) And there are several hundred individual files magically missing from all of their respective folders. All my other files and folders in the "download folder" are intact. But the microsofttweaks folder ("F:\Downloads\MicrosoftTweaks") and ALL of the many sub folders are empty, though the folders themselves are still there. I even navigated the folders via administrative cmd prompt and everything still showed empty. I'm currently running a raw recovery which, unfortunately, will produce a bunch of files with no normal extensions, but it will at least tell me if the files exist, assuming some security lock doesn't hide them, of course.

 :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: Not even the raw recovery found any files inside the folders--ANY! Even checked my Malwarebytes quarantine.

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