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Music files invisible in windows explorer
I only started experiencing this problem recently. Not sure if it was coincident with a software update (either windows or iTunes). Here's the problem. When I go to my music folder (which is on a drive other than my C drive) in explorer, explorer shows all the sub folders, which I've created based on artist and it display all sub-folders within the artist if there are multiple albums for that artist. When I select the folder that should contain the music files, only the artwork files, .event files and in some cases a .ini file. None of the mp3 are displayed. In some case if the music format is m4a it shows properly, in other cases it does not. However if I go to iTunes and click any of the albums and then select a music file and right click I can select Show in Windows Explorer all of the files are displayed. Since all my music is in one master folder, I do not use the music library. I've tried changing view options, toggling Show Hidden Files on and off, ran disk checking utilities and everything comes back clean. There are no virus' or malware on the machine. I've also tries logging on with a different profile to see if mine might be corrupt but no luck. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64x with Service Pack 1 installed. I have 24g of installed memory and plenty of disk space so I'm sure that's not the issue. I've looked at suggestions to other posts which showed similar problems with n luck. By the way I should also mention that if I try copying a folder to an external drive only the artwork, .event and .ini files get copied. None of the music. Any suggestions would be appreciated.