Strange auto deleting of files?

[Tarka Dal]

Every time I switch on my computer there are files in my recycle bin. These files have not been deleted by me but are deleted automatically by the computer for some reason. How can I find out where or how these files are being auto deleted?

 

[Golden]

Hi,

Can you list the files for us please?

Regards,
Golden

 

[Tarka Dal]

Hi,

Can you list the files for us please?

Regards,
Golden

This location.
C:\Users\User\Documents\Janine\Health & Fun\New World\Reiki\Web site\quotes

these files

anais nin
falling
fatigue
forest
etc

 

[Sir George]

Every time I switch on my computer there are files in my recycle bin. These files have not been deleted by me but are deleted automatically by the computer for some reason. How can I find out where or how these files are being auto deleted?

The only automatic deletion of files, that I am aware of, in Windows 7 is the Disk Cleanup Wizard, but it only deletes temporary files if they are over a week old.
(I don't use it, but I believe that's how it works.)

A possibility for the problem is malware infection. Have you run a scan with Malwarebytes or any of the other malware detection programs?

 

[Golden]

Hi,

What type of files are these? .txt, .html?

Regards,
Golden

 

[Tarka Dal]

They are JPEG.

I'll run a Malwarebytes test now but I haven't had and infection on my computer for years...

 

[Golden]

Hi,

Perhaps these JPEG's are related to a website and are being flushed from the system automatically somehow? I'll ask some web guru's to look at this for you.

Regards,
Golden

 

[Tarka Dal]

Hi,

Perhaps these JPEG's are related to a website and are being flushed from the system automatically somehow? I'll ask some web guru's to look at this for you.

Regards,
Golden

Thanks but they are not connected to the website that way. They are in storage.

 

[Golden]

Hi,

If you temporarily cut & paste them to a different location, then reboot the PC, do they still end up in the Recycle bin?

Regards,
Golden

 

[Tarka Dal]

I'm not surprised by this. Kaspersky is pretty darn good AV software!

@Golden I've since found that it does not happen when I reboot computer it's overnight...

 

[Golden]

Hi,

Ok. The only thing I can think of is to try my suggestion overnight, and then see if the files have also moved to the Recycle Bin.

Regards,
Golden

 

[Tarka Dal]

Hi,

Ok. The only thing I can think of is to try my suggestion overnight, and then see if the files have also moved to the Recycle Bin.

Regards,
Golden

OK!

 

[Tarka Dal]

Ok done that!
The files have now re-deleted themselves.
It's the same files all the time.
But, this is the strangest bit of all!
When you asked me to remove the files from the original folder and place them somewhere else I did that. I actually left them overnight in that same folder. The same files got deleted again not from the new folder...But, from the original folder which did not even contain the files........ MMmmwwerraahhhh?????
So, I restored the files from the recycle bin and then found they were back in the Original folder....
But, I still have the files in the folder that I had originally moved them too!
Boy! Am I baffled!

These are the files:

 

[logicearth]

Where do these images come from?
The only thing I can siggest is some program in your startup.

 

[Tarka Dal]

There is no program in the startup doing this! It happens at about 18:00pm...

 

[Golden]

Hi,

Are any programs left open overnight? For example, an internet browser?

What other files are in this location:
C:\Users\User\Documents\Janine\Health & Fun\New World\Reiki\Web site\quotes

Regards,
Golden

 

[Tarka Dal]

No programs running overnight and there are no other files in the folder.

 

[Slartybart]

How about trying this: copy other files into
C:\Users\User\Documents\Janine\Health & Fun\New World\Reiki\Web site\quotes
and see if they are deleted. Is it folder related or file related?
Look at your scheduled tasks - anything there? It seems as though it's consistent 18:00.

Search your Computer for 'Reiki' - search contents of files. Is there any cmd/bat/ini file that contains that folder?

 

[F5ing]

Did this ever get solved?

 

[Tarka Dal]

Yes. to be honest I am embarrassed to say this but it turns out my wife was logged on on another computer (same time each day) and got confused at to which computer she was on and was continually deleting the files on my computer via network access. She said a few days later which mad me realise that that was the problem....Go figure!