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Files disappear and strange duplicate folders
Running Win7 Home Premium with all updates on an i5-2500K PC. I have two problems that are happening on my D: data spinner drive.
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PROBLEM-1:
Within the last week, some files just disappeared. For instance, today I renamed a .jpg file from "IMG_989.jpg" to "Bumper 03.jpg". As soon as I pressed the ENTER key, the "IMG 989.jpg" file disappeared and the "Bumper 03.jpg" file does not exist.
I went to folder options in Explorer and verified that show hidden files, folders and drives" is checked and all of the other options are set to view everything as I've always set them since WinXP.
I ran cmd.exe and did a DIR command for the folder that contained the .jpg picture and neither "IMG_989.jpg" nor "Bumper 03.jpg" exists.
While continuing to work, I pasted a graphic in a new document in Photoshop and saved the document as "Front Bumper.jpg". Now I don't see that file either.
I installed the "Agent Ransack" search program and searched both my C: system drive and my internal 1TB data drive and the files were not found.
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PROBLEM-2:
While trying to troubleshoot the problems above, I wondered if my main folder name of "PHOTOS ###" was causing a problem in Win7. So I tried to rename the folder to "PHOTOS" but Win7 would not allow it saying there was already a folder with that name.
Scanning the root directory of my data drive (D:), I found a strange folder like item named "PHOTOS" that had a white file icon. When I click on that item, Win7 pops up a window that contains many different programs asking me to choose the one to open the item with. IOW, Win 7 doesn't know how to open that item. Clicking properties, the size of the item is 2.34MB.
Further scanning revealed that there was another strange item in the root directory named "GRAPHICS". I have a legitimate folder named "GRAPHICS ###" so the same thing happened to it. Clicking on the strange "GRAPHICS" item, Win7 doesn't know how to open it either.
I never created either of the strange items. Win7 created them all on its own.
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Any ideas on either of my two Win7 problems?
Thanks,
Skyzoomer