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Lost text files from VB6 Diary program on a Windows 7 machine
I wrote a Diary program for my wife using VB6 on an XP machine. The program was written to save the text files in a Folder under the installed Folder ex: Diary2007\Documents. This worked fine in XP. I have installed the file on a Windows 7 machine. Everything worked fine as far as the program goes. Unfortunately the install did not create the Document folder under the Diary2007 folder. Since then the hard drive crashed but I was able to get it running enough to pull files off of it. I have searched the entire drive for the folder Documents containing the txt files from the program. If I go to the diary program I can still access all of the text files from the program. I have changed the settings to show all hidden files and folders. I did find a folder called Documents but it was locked and I couldn't open it or access it. My wife has 10 years of her diary in there and I don't want to lose them or I'm dead meat!!!
Any help on this matter?? When I set this computer up I gave her admin rights but that doesn't seem to matter. Once I get those files off the hard drive then I can do a security format on it and start over!!
Last edited by johntech2004; 15 May 2015 at 03:28.