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[SiegfriedFM]

I just saved a file from Opera, starting with "n" (it was a regular text file). When I went to look for it, it wasn't there... and neither was anything after "m" in that folder! WTF happened? I have some oldish backups of that folder but I'd really like to fix this. Is my HDD breaking?

 

[Deleted member 1235]

and you are 100 percent sure this is not user error? Accidental move anything like that?

 

[SiegfriedFM]

I don't see how I could have moved both all FILES after m and all FOLDERS after m accidentally at the same time...

 

[SiegfriedFM]

Okay, now it gets really weird. I have Note Tab Light which keeps all my text files open until I close them. A few of my texts after M are open there, so I tried resaving them... and got the question if I wanted to over-write them since they already existed. So apparently they do exist, it's just that the regular Windows file browser system refuses to see them. How do I fix this?

 

[Gattsu25]

tools > folder options > view > show hidden files and folders

 

[SiegfriedFM]

Done (duh).

Now, I opened a DOS prompt. It won't list the files with a regular DIR (after the last file it says "No files found"), but if I specify them with DIR FILENAME.TXT it shows them with proper dates and sizes. It's like there's some file that screws up the file listing and stops the rest from being shown. When I try to re-attrib all files (in case some became hidden or system files for some crazy reason) I get a CRC error. Oh, and I just looked for the file I saved earlier, and it's there.

 

[Gattsu25]

Done (duh).

Now, I opened a DOS prompt. It won't list the files with a regular DIR (after the last file it says "No files found"), but if I specify them with DIR FILENAME.TXT it shows them with proper dates and sizes. It's like there's some file that screws up the file listing and stops the rest from being shown. When I try to re-attrib all files (in case some became hidden or system files for some crazy reason) I get a CRC error. Oh, and I just looked for the file I saved earlier, and it's there.

1) use DIR /S

2) right click the files in windows explorer and uncheck the hidden attribute one-by-one :b

 

[SiegfriedFM]

The CRC error was the key. I ran CHKDSK on my F: and had it clean up some broken files. Apparently there was one bad file (dunno which one but I probably won't miss it) and it screwed up the listing after M. All my files are back now, but I'm making some backup copies later today.