Everything in my "Pictures" folder disappeared! How to get them back?

[silverflower]

Everything in my "Pictures" folder disappeared! How to get them back?

One day I just opened my "Pictures" folder, and everything from years and years was gone. All that is left is empty "Camera Roll" and "Saved Pictures" + a "Screenshots" folder with 2 screenshots. Last thing I remember doing before I saw that was unsuccessfully trying to turn off Navigation and pressing random things on the keyboard. I saw some of the folders under "Pictures" on the side for a few days, but when I clicked on them, they said something about "Can't open, connect external drive is needed", but everything is fine. Now I don't even see the folders on the side anymore. Now, one of the folders in my "Music" section is under "Pictures" AND under "Music". There are really, really important things on there, how can I get it back???

 

[chefduane]

Simple. Just restore it from backup. Let us know how it goes. Wait... you did... You did do a back up of all those important pictures, RIGHT!??

 

[AddRAM]

Do a system restore.

Why don`t you have your data backed up ?

You should not be storing any data on your windows partition.

 

[Brds7t7]

You should be able to right click on the pictures folder and select "Restore Previous Versions". It will show you a list of shadow copies which you can open to check the folders. Then you can restore back to a time when the picture were available.

 

[richc46]

Welcome to our Forum
I think that if you try shadow explorer, you will be able to get back most if not all of the pictures.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/132087-shadowexplorer-recover-lost-files-folders.html

 

[silverflower]

You should be able to right click on the pictures folder and select "Restore Previous Versions". It will show you a list of shadow copies which you can open to check the folders. Then you can restore back to a time when the picture were available.

I tried, but it only has the version from yesterday...

 

[silverflower]

Do a system restore.

Why don`t you have your data backed up ?

You should not be storing any data on your windows partition.

How do I do that?

 

[silverflower]

Simple. Just restore it from backup. Let us know how it goes. Wait... you did... You did do a back up of all those important pictures, RIGHT!??

What if I didn't?!!

 

[silverflower]

Welcome to our Forum
I think that if you try shadow explorer, you will be able to get back most if not all of the pictures.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/132087-shadowexplorer-recover-lost-files-folders.html

How does it work?

 

[AddRAM]

It`s simpler to do then catching King crab on the Bering Sea

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html

Restore system files and settings

What is System Restore? - Windows Help

How to perform a system restore for Windows 7 | Dell US

How do I use system restore in Windows 7 to restore my computer to an earlier time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGXbMyFaROw

 

[AddRAM]

You should really buy an external hard drive to store your data on, and disconnect it when you`re not using it.

Never leave an external drive connected when you`re not using it.

Examples:

New, Western Digital, Desktop External Hard Drives, Hard Drives, Components - Newegg.com

Or personally I would add another hard drive to the system for data storage and disk images, at least one, I have 7 drives connected to this PC alone.

 

[ThrashZone]

Never leave an external drive connected when you`re not using it.

Examples:

Or personally I would add another hard drive to the system for data storage and disk images, at least one, I have 7 drives connected to this PC alone.

Seems a contradiction to me
Internal drives are not much different than external drives they are equally corruptible
If the system can read them so can any virus/ malware....