It's probably too late for this, but try going back to the desktop, clicking somewhere on it to give it focus, and then pressing CTRL-z, which is Undo. If done right away, whatever you did would be reversed. But if something else occupies the shell buffer, the record of the original action is lost.
No I forgot I was just thinking that but I have in a half way through a data recovery scan
Couple of other thoughts. View the Desktop in Explorer, list view, in case the icon is simply not displaying correctly. Or hit F5 when the Desktop has focus, to Refresh it.
Make sure the option to display Hidden folders is enabled in file/folder preferences.
Download the program Everything, which will quickly analyse the drive and let you sort and search using various parameters. If the folder was large, a size sort might reveal it.
Do not try a system restore. It will not affect user files, and you may mess something else up if the folder ended up in the wrong place.
It's probably not going to hurt anything.
Here's what I would do.
Open a command window ( Start Menu, type 'cmd', right click on CMD and select "open as administrator")
navigate to C:\ by typing in cd.. and hitting Enter, until you get there.
Now do a search for the folder. It would look like this:
Either use the exact folder name, or use what you know with a wildcard for the rest: folderna* If there are spaces you must use quotes.Code:dir foldername /A:D /S /P
Or you can do a similar thing for any one of the files, but delete the /Aspec. This will search the whole C drive, so choose an uncommon file or folder name.
Nice one mate I am in your debt that everything worked
It was in a folder called Intel on my c drive but why wasn't it showing up on any searches?
Any ideas
Thanks everyone for your help I had so many memories on there
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