Hi, my name's Chris, and I was *THIS* close to finding the nearest Microsoft representative in my area and crushing the life out of him with my bare hands.
I do 3D modelling on the side, and sell the models I make. I have a model I've spent, oh, about the last 3 months working on that Vista seems to have suddenly forgotten that it ever existed.
My save file vanished. The sub folder with the texture files I had made vanished. All gone. The main file and the textures were in different folders, and it wiped the files out of my backup directory even. They weren't deleted, there was nothing even there that Windows would let my file recovery software see, they just weren't there. I just finished a full system restore to a checkpoint from a few hours ago. The folders and files still aren't there when I browse through the folder structure, yet somehow, magically, my 3D modelling software and my image editing software can see the files and folders just fine.
I've checked, the folders are set to show hidden files (in case they suddenly went Hidden for some reason), I've disabled UAC in case it was some setting there that decided I wasn't allowed to see my own damned files, no good.
Honestly, the fact that I was able to get system restore to let my editing software see the files long enough to save copies of them is the only reason I'm not looking up legal precedences right now.
Needless to say, I am *VERY* interested in finding out exactly why this happened, how to access my "invisible" files, and how to prevent it from ever happening again.
I do 3D modelling on the side, and sell the models I make. I have a model I've spent, oh, about the last 3 months working on that Vista seems to have suddenly forgotten that it ever existed.
My save file vanished. The sub folder with the texture files I had made vanished. All gone. The main file and the textures were in different folders, and it wiped the files out of my backup directory even. They weren't deleted, there was nothing even there that Windows would let my file recovery software see, they just weren't there. I just finished a full system restore to a checkpoint from a few hours ago. The folders and files still aren't there when I browse through the folder structure, yet somehow, magically, my 3D modelling software and my image editing software can see the files and folders just fine.
I've checked, the folders are set to show hidden files (in case they suddenly went Hidden for some reason), I've disabled UAC in case it was some setting there that decided I wasn't allowed to see my own damned files, no good.
Honestly, the fact that I was able to get system restore to let my editing software see the files long enough to save copies of them is the only reason I'm not looking up legal precedences right now.
Needless to say, I am *VERY* interested in finding out exactly why this happened, how to access my "invisible" files, and how to prevent it from ever happening again.