ANOTHER Problem With Windows Explorer <sigh>

This is not the OS, there is corruption in your system. Did you do an upgrade or a clean install?

If you come back and tell me you did an upgrade. We have to do a clean install. Upgrades just hide any problems that were already in the system and sometimes make them worse. Ill be waiting.

paul0 said:

I am having the same problem with windows explorer. Checking the folder contents using the command prompt gives identical results to windows explorer. Oddly enough when I browse for files using the open command in Crimson editor, the mission files are shown, (although they still won't show up in windows explorer).

Any word on a fix?

Mission files? What is these? Can you elaborate?

paul0 said:

Correction: missing files.

So far I have come across several instances of this problem.

One: Installed a program. I then installed an additional package for the program. The package files are not viewable using windows explorer (they are not hidden, they can't be deleted, however the program can use them).

Two: Installed a program. Saved a file to the program directory. That file is not viewable in windows explorer.

Like I said before, opening the folders using the open command in Crimson editor shows the missing files.

Okay it is clear then that your files are going to the VirtualStore. This happens when a program tries to save to locations it does not have permission to write to. Now Windows Explorer does not show them but the Open/Browse window will because it aggregates the VirtualStore.

You can find the VirtualStore here: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore