Windows Vista Forums
Vista Forums Home Join Vista Forums Windows 7 Forum Vista Tutorials Tags
Welcome to Windows Vista Forums. Our forum is dedicated to helping you find solutions with any problems, errors or issues you are experiencing with Windows Vista. The Vista forum also covers news and updates and has an extensive Windows Vista tutorial section that covers a wide range of tips and tricks.

Go Back   Vista Forums > Vista Newsgroups > Vista file management

Vista - Folders disappearing in explorer

Reply
 
Old 07-01-2009   #1 (permalink)


Vista Ultimate x64
 
 

Folders disappearing in explorer

Alright, I'm really bad at explaining things, but I'll try to be as detailed as possible.

Last night, everything was working fine. Completely fine with no problems.

I usually leave my computer on with no problems. I wake up this morning and this happens.

I double click on Computer and I see nothing. No drives are there, no DVD drive, nothing. I do see the folders column on the left though. So I click to open my F: drive (My file storage drive) and all my folders are gone, but any files that were on the F: drive are still there. So I type in my address bar F:\Anime\some random anime, and I can see video file. When I go to F:\Anime (which is all folders) I see nothing. I have a few unorganized files on my F: drive, I can see those files, but not folders. So by doing this and exploring through my command prompt I find out that all of my files are still there, but I can't see any folders at all. Any programs I still had running (IRC, Steam, and Winamp) were all still running and working fine.

I reboot my computer just to be sure and I get the same thing.

I haven't installed anything new, I haven't run anything suspicious. Nothing has been changed since yesterday. I ran a System Restore and everything has returned back to normal. I would have taken screenshots and looked into it more, but making sure my files were safe was the most important thing on my mind. I'd still like to know if anyone else has ever seen this happen or if they have any idea of what could cause this?

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Reply

Thread Tools


Similar Threads
Thread Forum
Disappearing Shortcuts/Folders Vista music pictures video
Disappearing folders bar in Windows Explorer Vista General
case of the disappearing folders Vista mail
OE disappearing messages and folders .NET General


Vista Forums is an independent web site and has not been authorized,
sponsored, or otherwise approved by Microsoft Corporation.
"Windows Vista", the Start Orb, and related materials are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.
© Designer Media Ltd

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46