Run a selective restore using your backup program and only select the items
you need back. You don't say what program you use but all the ones I have
seen will let you selectively restore.
"Eugene" <Eugene@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> After installing SP1, I noticed that some folders had disappeared from my
> desktop. A couple were folders of shortcuts (easily recreated), but one
> was a
> folder of recently taken photos. I know I hadn't deleted it myself because
> my
> recycle bin still contains some of the rejects I deleted from that folder,
> so
> if I had deleted the folder itself it would also be in there. Ahen I went
> to
> restore one of the rejects it told me the folder it came from no longer
> existed.
>
> I was hoping Vista had just moved the folder, but a file search could not
> find it. And my weekly backup only copies my hard disk, which I guess does
> not include desktop items?
>
> Has anyone else had this problem? Is there any way to retrieve these
> folders?