my pictures file has just gone

[slim zag]

tried searching for it ,tried searching for individual pics nothing ,
it was once in my documents but i couldnt open it some rubbish about not being administrator ( yes i am btw)
my videos and my music have now gone awol in total ive lost everything .
ive been googling for solutions but none work (and ive tried a lot ).
hundreds of photos and videos and a shed load of mp3,s all gone for no reason

how the hell did this happen i am the only user and didnt /dont have any malware or newly installed programmes .

any ideas this is just ridiculous ?


thanks .

 

[Joan Archer]

Have you tried a System Restore to just before they went missing ?

 

[slim zag]

yes iv'e done a few system restores now still no joy .

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

Not sure what happened there, but you could use a disk analyzer to try and find them , or an undelete tool - to try and recover them if they've been deleted.

This glaryutilities includes modules for both of those , and it's free - you could give it a try. Try and download and install onto a different partition ( if you have one ) - means you won't overwrite anything if it's been deleted.

Glary Utilities

Hope it helps

SIW2

 

[bruce2]

Hi, slim zag, have you notice any drastic space (used/free) changes on your HDD? Those files should have taken up a lot off space. Don't know what happened and Don't know how to fix it, but may be helpful to know it.