Nelsonj3
Give us the path to some of the folders where you are seeing this behavior.
In Windows Explorer when you are viewing one of these folders, click an
empty spot in the Address Bar and right click/copy the path that is shown
there. Paste the path back here, in a reply.
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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User
"nelsonj3" <nelsonj3@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:66880656-9BB2-4BA4-86AF-D2C409BBD2BA@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Thanks for the tip, but this is not the problem. Many times it will show
> one
> file but not another of the same type. It also happens to folders. Any
> ideas?
>
> "Rogue" wrote:
> Quote:
>> There is a setting in Windows Explorer (Options>Folder and Search
>> Options>View Tab>Hide protected operating system files). This is enabled
>> by
>> default to not show certain file types, regardless of if you have hidden
>> files on or off. Having hidden or system files hidden can also make some
>> files not show.
>>
>> "nelsonj3" <nelsonj3@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:8E0E364D-850E-498C-833E-ECC372141475@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > In many folders on my computer Explorer doesn't see a number of files.
>> > It
>> > will see some of them but not all. Could it be that the hard drive
>> > index
>> > is
>> > incomplete?
>> > What is weird is that other programs (Irfanview for one) can see these
>> > files
>> > when Explorer can't. Why would that be? If I want to manipulate them
>> > I
>> > have
>> > to do it from a program not designed for the task.
>> >