What happened to my 'MY PHOTOS'?

[Dias de verano]

I think we are getting confused because MomNEEDShelp is mixing up files and folders. It sounds very much like MY PHOTOS is a folder, not a file. It is quite possible for a folder to be empty, that is, to not have any files in it. Because they have all been deleted somehow. So let's find that recycle bin!

[MomNEEDShelp]

Nope, not in the recycle bin. I would guess it's about 60 pictures. They were in a folder named MY PHOTOS.




Thanks for trying. Anything else??

[reddevilggg]

What happened with Recuva?

[MomNEEDShelp]

What happened with Recuva?

Recuva Found nothing.

I remember exactly what I did now. I went to START ---> SEARCH ---> PICTURES, MUSIC & VIDEO. I deleted everything in there because I thought it was all stuff I already deleted... not realizing they would be erased from the MY PHOTOS folder they were in.

I then went to WINDOWS LIVE (read above) and did some kind of clean up trying to make my PC faster.

A SYSTEM RESTORE will not work.


Now that you guys know what I did, can anyone help me get them back in the folder??

[Fed]

Because My Photos is not a standard Windows directory then I'm guessing it was installed by some camera software or photo editing software.

Could this be the case and you have since removed the software?
BTW it's looking like your photos have gone forever.

[reddevilggg]

In a word, no, What you've done is deleted your photos then cleaned up your hard drive. When you clean up the hard drive it writes over the files that you've deleted so that they are totally unrecoverable. Sorry.

[Dias de verano]

I went to START ---> SEARCH ---> PICTURES, MUSIC & VIDEO. I deleted everything in there

They have gone.

[MomNEEDShelp]

LOL!!  All this for a NO, huh? I was hoping that was not gonna be the outcome, but thanks ALL. It stinks to not know what the heck you are doing and then when you try, you mess things up permanantly.  

You are all very lucky people. I am jealous. Well, thanks so much.

PS: If anyone knows how I can do something easy to free up some space on this relic (like maybe cookies or crap that gets into the pc without one wanting it there), feel free to let me know. PC is too filled with crap to do a sucessful DEFRAG.

Sony Vaio w/ XP pentium 4 (I believe 1GB) purchased in December 2003.

[Dias de verano]

It is possible your local community college will have free or cheap classes in basic information technology. It's never too late to learn.

[reddevilggg]

When was your last defrag?

[mcxeb52!]

get ccleaner and run it (after verifying that the settings are what you want), it's a good freeware program


Also .... you may want to read up on things, here's a link which has good information....

http://pcworld.about.com/news/Apr242002id96184.htm

[Shynnie]

Hi all


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[Dias de verano]

I'm not sure if you're being rude or not, Shynnie, your English is somewhat eccentric, but if you are, maybe lose the attitude, huh?

[squall_01]

I second that motion.  We know what where doing we just dont asumme that what we know is what they do,  its like saing you build your own machine but use a rig.

[mcxeb52!]

We're no super doctors. We can help diagnose what's going on and try to prescribe logical medications but there's still unknown mysteries now and then .... otherwise I'd be the happiest kid on the block ....