Alright, i have a folder with pictures and text documents in it. I was adding something to one of the folders within this folder, and everything was fine. I wanted to make this folder the destination for a torrent i was going to download. I began downloading the torrent, but it wasn't going where i wanted it to go. It was sending itself to "Libraries>Documents", but when i opened the documents it was nowhere to be found. I stopped the torrent, and deleted all data related to it, Via the torrent utility. I tried it one more time, and the same thing happened. A few days later i went open my folder, that contains 4 folders, and 109MB of data, and there was nothing there! The folder is empty, but when i open the properties it says the data is still there. I created this folder in 2010. Strange thing is though, there was two folders of the same name, but one of them had two dot (..) on the end of the name, and they BOTH said that they were created on the same day at the exact same time. Wednesday January 19Th 2011 1:42:23PM.. But that's in the "properties" of each folder. When i put my mouse over the folders without clicking, they say different times, but one of them still says the date and time i mentioned, and this one also had no data in it. All of the other folders, where the folder in question is located, are unchanged. I tried to download the same torrent into another folder and delete it with all its related data a few moments ago, but the files remained there and unchanged.
I didn't want to ask about possibilities, but has this ever happened to anyone? How can two folders be created at the same time? Its like, the folder cloned itself, renamed itself, and deleted its files. Why does it still say that my folder has data in it though? Did they get moved? If so, where could they have gone? I NEED those files. I also have no money to tinker with fancy recovery programs.
Help is needed. Please and thank you. Sorry for the confusing nature of my post, stuff like this doesn't make sense at all.
Also, i made one copy of each folder and they both say that they are empty, including the one that says it still has files in it.
If there is another forum here that is better suited for this thread, please let me know. thanks.