Solve It If U can.......

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I had folder full of audio songs...I had set hidden atribute to it.
today a strange thing happened.The containts disappeared.I removed hidden atribute.But i cant find any thing in it.the size of the folder is showing right(1.5Gb)..i can even run the playlist createn from the songs in that folder...what do u think the problem & solution is????

use stellar pheonix to check if its on ur hdd....

I doubt that only HIDDEN attribute of the fo9lder has been removed but the files in the folder are still set to HIDDEN

So just enable option "Show hidden files/folders" from Tools -> Folder Options, and ur all files will be displayed!

bcoz when we hide any folder in XP, it ask us whether to set the attribute to only folder or also its sub-folders, and I think u set the attributes to the files inside the folder also

yeah vishal that might be the reason

or just do a search for the files in x.p [ dont forget to select "search hidden files" option]

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Vishal Gupta said:
I doubt that only HIDDEN attribute of the fo9lder has been removed but the files in the folder are still set to HIDDEN

So just enable option "Show hidden files/folders" from Tools -> Folder Options, and ur all files will be displayed!

bcoz when we hide any folder in XP, it ask us whether to set the attribute to only folder or also its sub-folders, and I think u set the attributes to the files inside the folder also

I hav already done that...no use...anything else??thanx

Atleast d/l demo version of stellar pheonix to check out if it exists on ur HDD...be4 its too late

Ya i agree with Vishal..................

@pushkar1986
Do uv also disabled the option "hide system files/folders" in Folder Options?
May be the attributes of those files hv been set to System, and thats why those files r not showing!

if u cant see files but files are played in playlist

why not u copy while folder to some other drive & see if ur files are being copied or not

yeah its not showing files but when copying it shows "from" "to"

open folder

press Ctrl+A

in status bar see if it shows how many files selected or not

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piyush619 said:
if u cant see files but files are played in playlist

why not u copy while folder to some other drive & see if ur files are being copied or not

yeah its not showing files but when copying it shows "from" "to"

open folder

press Ctrl+A

in status bar see if it shows how many files selected or not

I tried but no use...
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Vishal Gupta said:
@pushkar1986
Do uv also disabled the option "hide system files/folders" in Folder Options?
May be the attributes of those files hv been set to System, and thats why those files r not showing!

no...they r not hidden..& i hav also enabled that "hide system files/folders"

Open DOS and navigate to that folder and give following command:

attrib -s -h -r

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wizrulz said:
use stellar pheonix to check if its on ur hdd....

I Checked & all the files exist..but i cant c them

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wizrulz said:
Atleast d/l demo version of stellar pheonix to check out if it exists on ur HDD...be4 its too late

I Checked & all the files exist..but i cant c them

Check out whether you have used locking programs like Magic Folders that makes the files Invisible.

pushkar1986 said:
I Checked & all the files exist..but i cant c them
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Now that u know they exists....do one thing get a HDD form ur friend ....recoverthose files....format ur drive and copy them back

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Vishal Gupta said:
Open DOS and navigate to that folder and give following command:

attrib -s -h -r

i think this should work

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Why don't you use the search facility in XP?

Simply search for the .mp3 or .wav etc files in that particular folder. If they are there than those audio files will be displayed.

After that you can copy-paste to another folder.

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nirubhai said:
i think this should work

Giving message files not found..

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Wannabe_a_techie said:
Why don't you use the search facility in XP?

Simply search for the .mp3 or .wav etc files in that particular folder. If they are there than those audio files will be displayed.

After that you can copy-paste to another folder.

No use...didnt found any thing
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kiran.rkk said:
Check out whether you have used locking programs like Magic Folders that makes the files Invisible.

i dont hav any locking programs..ty

check out do u really play those files if yes

which player

in WMP u can see path of file played
also in Winamp palth info is shown

why not just copy that path & see weather files exists or not

take ur hdd to frenz place boot frm his hdd and see if u can see ur files

@pushkar1986
If the playlist was created in WMP and its working, then just right-click on a song in the playlist and select "Open file location", it'll open the folder in which the song is stored

hey guys is he really facing such problem
coz logically what u think
can it be happen or is it just a spam

Why don't you just delete the folder and then try to play the songs from WMP again? Maybe they have been moved. If it does play, find the files.
If it doesn't, copy that folder from the 'Recycle Bin' onto the 'Desktop' and see whether the files are there or not.

Roll your mouse over the folder, it should show the size and the names of the first few files. Hitting 'Ctrl + A' inside the folder and going to 'File >> Properties' might help too.

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piyush619 said:
hey guys is he really facing such problem
coz logically what u think
can it be happen or is it just a spam

Hey...I m serious...it really happened.I dont know hot it happened.

Drag the folder to WMP and 'Play'. Does it play? Does it show the playlist?

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use Linux or get a new monitor.......

Ok d00d, since ur saying that u have tried everything, I'm going to tell u a way which i don't think you wud have tried. Now, i know it is going to sound a bit stupid but try it and tell me what happens.
Navigate to the folder where the songs are stored using any other file explorer other than Windows Explorer. For example, try Nero (right-most pane). It will show you ALL the files in your computer. If you don't have nero, then try navigating to the folder using WinRAR. If you don't have WinRAR also, then try Total Commander.

sharkmench said:
use Linux or get a new monitor.......

Huh, how will that help?

If the DOS method too fails, best to go to a friends place with the hd as mav3 said. See if u can view/copy it to some other place then.
If the files are enabled to be viewed, definitely the os or some other sw(like those magic folder, hide folder...) is playing around.

After reading all the stuffs i can say that if u sent me some snapshots of the folder with showing size of folder & files it has in tooltip of folder or
in status bar of folder then i will definately give u a solution

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I dun no about you Guys but this looks like a challenge to me......
"SOLVE IT IF YOU CAN....."The title sayz it all........
but if you Realy have the prob then taking HDD is the only solution....

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well, i think you are effected by virus. i can tell you what this virus those, first it removes your folder options, then it disables registry and task manager and then it hides all the folders or most of them in your system and creates duplicate folders of the same name but with an exe extension, which you can see if you open the folder options and uncheck both the hide files options under show hidden files and folders.

if you remove the virus and then by mistake click again on the duplicate empty folder with exe extension again your system gets infected, by following these instructions, i guess you have also infected your friend's system with brontok virus.

Dude, take a look at the last reply, will you? Sheesh!

try

Code:

attrib [B]/s /d[/B] -r -s -h *

Don't forget the /s /d switched .

Navigae to that directory n then execute this command .

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