Files missing but appear on Search?
Ok so I just notice a lot of my backed up files have all of a sudden gone missing from my NTFS non-system partition folder D:\Downloads\ . The folder itself was not entirely emptied however. If I go to the folder either in Windows 7 or Ubuntu from the same PC, the folder appears to be missing the same files in either OS. If I run a search for all files "*" from Windows 7 however, it shows from what I can see would be the vast majority of the missing files. If I try and access any of the files by opening/copying from the search results, I receive an error from Windows/the application saying the file does not exist. I've tried running a delete recovery program (Recuva by Piriform) and going down through the huge list of files I've purposely deleted overtime, I can see a few files I believe may have been casualty to this recent anomaly. I'm unable to see any overlap between the search results and the delete recovery report however. At this point, I'm reluctant to actually run any undelete restore or in fact alter the drive at all for fear of overwriting any lost files. It's quite an archaic backup so I don't suppose I'll ever know if all the files are showing up in search. Obviously a lesson for me to improve my backup methods. Anyway, I'm hoping somebody might have some advice or be able to offer any explanation or precedence for what's happened! Thanks in advance :)
July 6th, 2010 6:36pm

Does the issue only occur in d:\downloads ? Does the issue occur if you boot into Safe Mode?Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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July 9th, 2010 4:55am

They could just be in your cache, delete files in your cache and see if it still comes up in the search. also when backing up to cd, files can stay in the cd drive folder ready to be written.
July 9th, 2010 5:41am

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