lost files

[tcpeters]

Hey all,
Woke up this morning and my some of my document files are missing. My pictures,my videos, and others are all gone. Did a search for the missing files and they show up in (off the top of my head) app data/microsoft/roaming/recent. Now i can't find anything. My memory in C drive hasn't gone down so I think the files are somewhere but I can't find them. Any thoughts?

[jason2074]

Have you tried changing your Folder options under view tab for Show/Do not show hidden files(click apply) and checking/unchecking hide protected system files? It could also be on a mulitple user account settings.

[tcpeters]

When I go to the folder for instance "Church videos" it says folder empty but when I right click and go to properties it says 667 files & 7 folders and says it's size is 214 GB.

[jason2074]

Have you tried my suggestion on reply#1? Also if you are logging in to different user accounts, use the main or admin. account.

[tcpeters]

Thanks Jason
It worked. Everything shows now! Whew!!!!
Thanks again. I wonder what happened that changed it?

[tcpeters]

Now though, when i look at the folder my files look semi transparent. Everything works ok but it doesn't look quite right?

[jason2074]

files look semi transparent

At this point you could copy those files to another location in your hard drive but as long they are functional they will be fine. Right-click the folder and choose Properties and look for an option checked hidden and unticked it(Click apply). Although not all folders are applicable in this case.