Windows 7: Photo Viewer delete photo after rotation

Hi!!!! is there anyone out there that can assit me? my win 7 photo viewer does the weirdest thing!! when i view my photos and rotate them and close the viewer, they disappear from my folder where they were originally stored in. i've checked my deleted items. no luck. searched whole pc for edited files and names of files that disappeared. no luck there either. i tested it on my hubby's pc. exact same result there. please please please! i need urgent help.

Are you using the Red X on the right hand side to close the Window,if so this is the Delete Button.
Open your Recycle bin the deleted files may still be there.

Hi Kodi, thank you. but i am 100% sure i did not delete them and as mentioned i have checked the recycle bin. nothing there?

The photo viewer is supposed to autosave the last modification by default. I just rotated a few images on my own machine- after I click on the top right X to close the viwer, I see a momentary "saving" notice before the window closes. The images are still there on the hdd and on reopening, they show up as last rotated.

I suggest you run a sfc scan 3-4 times.

SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker

run this command from command prompt in the folder where the files went missing.

attrib *.* -h

Actually the file does not go missing. They simply get hidden. I was facing the same issue till i found out that these modified files were actually getting hidden.

Not sure why this is happening.
But only way right now is to unhide them.

No need to do this

thank you! will try that x

my computer has been doing the same thing the last week or so (the damn kids have probably changed something somewhere)

^^^ can you please explain how i do this???

Hey guys
I would also like to find the answer to this problem. I have exactly the same issue. I right click on the photos in windows viewer to rotate them and they disappear. I can't find them anywhere and some are seriously important to me. I cant work out the 'command prompt' thing. Can somebody please help???

Please can anyone hlp. I have a similar problem. I rotate photos in my pictures and they disappear. I dont close the box or anything, it just disappears after i right click on rotate. Where would they go? and i have never had this problem before??? they are not in my recycle bin and when i run for the file name nothing comes up???