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Suddenly Missing All Files inside Folder and all Subfolders
madhouserevival:
By security flag I mean something make the files hidden by a command of some sort. I even tried the unhide.exe from bleepingcomputer.com (twice). Also ran a couple file undeleters that produced zero results. As for size of drive before and after it would be a tiny percentage of the total space, so not even sure what the difference would be. Did move the folder onto another drive just now and the differences is less than 1MB.
Think I'm giving up. Stinks because they were small programs and tweaks I always applied to a newly installed OS (from XP thru Win 8). I guess I have to start over. I've got a really, really old backup of the folder on a dvd somewhere (I think). Probably not even worth restoring from that even if I do find it. :*(
Shane:
It is very odd that it happened and you cant even recover, but looks like your only option is to just rebuild your files.
Still very odd how it was only that one folder and all its sub folders and nothing else.
Shane
madhouserevival:
I blame wizards! :evil:
Shane:
I blame Microsoft..... Why? because we need a scapegoat lol
Shane
madhouserevival:
Was just going thru your Advanced Tweaker. In the Windows 7 tweaks there is "Hide File" and "Hide Folder". Doesn't name any specific file or folder. What does that do and could it have caused such a behavior as what I experienced? Or is it just to add a context menu option in explorer?
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