This is goofy

This makes about as much sense ot me as, well, anything else.

I had a folder on my desktop called "sort" and is where I stuff stuff
into to be sorted out later. Now, for no reason, it's gone. Ok, I
figured I MIGHHT have deleted it or moved it by some strange
reason...doubtful, but I'm open to realistic possibilities. I check and
there's nothing in the RB and nothing anywhere on my C drive by that
folder's name or any of the names of the files contained within it.

Additionally, everything else within my profile is still there
(favorites, etc). One thing I did find odd, and it may be completely
normal and I never noticed, is when I go into Windows Explorer and look
at my desktop, I see a Network shortcut and a folder with my profile
name on it. I don't recall seeing it on the desktop before, but
honestly, I don't remember looking in that view before.

I run Undelete and it finds a ton of junk, but not my missing folder or
it's files. So I check my second hard drive. Nothing.

I've got it set to view hidden and also to view system files, just on
the off chance that, for some reason, I had made them hidden files for
some silly reason...but like I said, I'm open to possibilities. But
their yielded nothing.

I'm pretty much at wit's end. I'm able to see the same thing on my
desktop view as I am when I go through My Cpmputer and view the desktop.
I've recreated a folder on the desktop using the same name and it
doesn't give me an error stating that there is already a folder with
that name on the desktop. I've gone through DOS and looked at the
desktop. I've checked the desktop using a remote connection. I don't
think there's anything sane that I haven't tried and there's a few
things that I've tried that make you scratch your head and wonder how
heavy the medication is. The folder and it's files really aren't
anything of any significance, but right now it's just a matter of
finding out what happened and why.

Again, I'm pretty much at my end of being able to troubleshoot this
issue. Anyone else have any thoughts or ideas?


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TQWorld

TQ

I can't tell you what happened to your folder, but it sounds like it was
deleted?

The view you are seeing in Windows Explorer is normal. The Desktop folder
you see at the top of the folder tree with those folders is just there for
convenience. This gives you easy access to your personal folders without the
need to navigate down to C:\Users\yourname\....


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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"TQWorld" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> This makes about as much sense ot me as, well, anything else.
>
> I had a folder on my desktop called "sort" and is where I stuff stuff
> into to be sorted out later. Now, for no reason, it's gone. Ok, I
> figured I MIGHHT have deleted it or moved it by some strange
> reason...doubtful, but I'm open to realistic possibilities. I check and
> there's nothing in the RB and nothing anywhere on my C drive by that
> folder's name or any of the names of the files contained within it.
>
> Additionally, everything else within my profile is still there
> (favorites, etc). One thing I did find odd, and it may be completely
> normal and I never noticed, is when I go into Windows Explorer and look
> at my desktop, I see a Network shortcut and a folder with my profile
> name on it. I don't recall seeing it on the desktop before, but
> honestly, I don't remember looking in that view before.
>
> I run Undelete and it finds a ton of junk, but not my missing folder or
> it's files. So I check my second hard drive. Nothing.
>
> I've got it set to view hidden and also to view system files, just on
> the off chance that, for some reason, I had made them hidden files for
> some silly reason...but like I said, I'm open to possibilities. But
> their yielded nothing.
>
> I'm pretty much at wit's end. I'm able to see the same thing on my
> desktop view as I am when I go through My Cpmputer and view the desktop.
> I've recreated a folder on the desktop using the same name and it
> doesn't give me an error stating that there is already a folder with
> that name on the desktop. I've gone through DOS and looked at the
> desktop. I've checked the desktop using a remote connection. I don't
> think there's anything sane that I haven't tried and there's a few
> things that I've tried that make you scratch your head and wonder how
> heavy the medication is. The folder and it's files really aren't
> anything of any significance, but right now it's just a matter of
> finding out what happened and why.
>
> Again, I'm pretty much at my end of being able to troubleshoot this
> issue. Anyone else have any thoughts or ideas?
>
>
> --
> TQWorld

Hiya,

Thanks for the clarification. As for the folder/files being
deleted....who knows at this point. I used Undelete to scan my system
and it produced an impressive list of what looked to be pretty much
everything that has been deleted over the last few months. It really
hasn't had time to get cluttered as I've been using a different machine
for the most part over the last month or so.

Crazy stuff.


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TQWorld

Have you been using a Utility such as FreeHideFolder?

Try doing a SEARCH for SORT*.*

"TQWorld" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> This makes about as much sense ot me as, well, anything else.
>
> I had a folder on my desktop called "sort" and is where I stuff stuff
> into to be sorted out later. Now, for no reason, it's gone. Ok, I
> figured I MIGHHT have deleted it or moved it by some strange
> reason...doubtful, but I'm open to realistic possibilities. I check and
> there's nothing in the RB and nothing anywhere on my C drive by that
> folder's name or any of the names of the files contained within it.
>
> Additionally, everything else within my profile is still there
> (favorites, etc). One thing I did find odd, and it may be completely
> normal and I never noticed, is when I go into Windows Explorer and look
> at my desktop, I see a Network shortcut and a folder with my profile
> name on it. I don't recall seeing it on the desktop before, but
> honestly, I don't remember looking in that view before.
>
> I run Undelete and it finds a ton of junk, but not my missing folder or
> it's files. So I check my second hard drive. Nothing.
>
> I've got it set to view hidden and also to view system files, just on
> the off chance that, for some reason, I had made them hidden files for
> some silly reason...but like I said, I'm open to possibilities. But
> their yielded nothing.
>
> I'm pretty much at wit's end. I'm able to see the same thing on my
> desktop view as I am when I go through My Cpmputer and view the desktop.
> I've recreated a folder on the desktop using the same name and it
> doesn't give me an error stating that there is already a folder with
> that name on the desktop. I've gone through DOS and looked at the
> desktop. I've checked the desktop using a remote connection. I don't
> think there's anything sane that I haven't tried and there's a few
> things that I've tried that make you scratch your head and wonder how
> heavy the medication is. The folder and it's files really aren't
> anything of any significance, but right now it's just a matter of
> finding out what happened and why.
>
> Again, I'm pretty much at my end of being able to troubleshoot this
> issue. Anyone else have any thoughts or ideas?
>
>
> --
> TQWorld