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biggsyke
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New Customer

"Disappearing pictures from computer?" , posted Mon 22 Mar 15:39

Hi,
Last night I was saving some video game pics to my hard drive, and everything was fine. Then I went to save another pic and to my surprise found that over 2/3 of the pics in a particular folder (D:\My Documents\Pictures\Games) were gone! One click they were there and the next they weren't. I save my pics in My Documents\Pictures folder and when you Right-Click Save As there is a list of what's in that folder with thumbnail previews, and I noticed that a whole bunch of the pictures weren't there.

I went to My Computer and checked the folder and more than 2000 pics were gone. I checked to see if they might be hidden, I ran a search for them, and nothing.

Has this happened to anyone else here, or with any kind of data at all? Does anyone have any solutions or advice? I don't understand how hard drive data can just dissapear, and it was just from that particular folder. Nothing else wrong the computer.

Thanks in advance.

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"Re(1):Disappearing pictures from computer?" , posted Mon 22 Mar 16:54

quote:
Hi,
Last night I was saving some video game pics to my hard drive, and everything was fine. Then I went to save another pic and to my surprise found that over 2/3 of the pics in a particular folder (D:\My Documents\Pictures\Games) were gone! One click they were there and the next they weren't. I save my pics in My Documents\Pictures folder and when you Right-Click Save As there is a list of what's in that folder with thumbnail previews, and I noticed that a whole bunch of the pictures weren't there.

I went to My Computer and checked the folder and more than 2000 pics were gone. I checked to see if they might be hidden, I ran a search for them, and nothing.

Has this happened to anyone else here, or with any kind of data at all? Does anyone have any solutions or advice? I don't understand how hard drive data can just dissapear, and it was just from that particular folder. Nothing else wrong the computer.

Thanks in advance.

I've had a similiar problem before, with an older computer. It turned out to be a virus that was deleting anything new at random. The virus also expanded the memory usage of anything that was a possible target.

Something that could tell you if you might be experiencing this same problem would be to download a file, and see if it's taking up more room than the size that you downloaded the file at.

If you are getting the enlarged file result, then try running a virus scan. If nothing is pulled up (like in my case), you'll have to wipe the drive and everything with it, because if you back anything up, the virus goes with it and you'll end up with the same problem.

If you're not getting the enlarged file result, I would still recommend a virus scan, adware scan and spyware scan, as all three of those could be one of the problems.

I would also recommend trying other ideas if they are put up. Wiping your drive should always be a last resort.

Hope this helps.