I have lost My Pictures folder!

[The Everlasting]

Yesterday I noticed that My Pictures folder has just gone/vanished,the folder was about 10Gb in size,and had thousand of photos in it.

I have tried system restore/undelete programs,and nothing worked. I did a scan with avg,and it picked up some viruses,but they werent really viruses,as I had some Battlefield 2 trainers on the computer,which avg can mistake for a virus.

The only other explanation I can think of is that my computer may have been hacked?

I really want those pictures back,even if it means I need to pay a professional IT person to do it....

Thoughts?

[Virago]

Has it actually gone, or just been moved accidentally? It's easy to accidentally drag 'n' drop a folder into another folder.

[BoristheBiter]

Yesterday I noticed that My Pictures folder has just gone/vanished,the folder was about 10Gb in size,and had thousand of photos in it.

I have tried system restore/undelete programs,and nothing worked. I did a scan with avg,and it picked up some viruses,but they werent really viruses,as I had some Battlefield 2 trainers on the computer,which avg can mistake for a virus.

The only other explanation I can think of is that my computer may have been hacked?

I really want those pictures back,even if it means I need to pay a professional IT person to do it....

Thoughts?

if you know one of the photo names just run a search for it. if found it will tell you where it is .

[steve_t]

It's probably just been moved. Hope you find it. Go to "My Computer", press F3, search for *.jpg

After you find them, back them up!

[AllanB]

10gig


That's a serious porn collection

Maybe it's time to let it go ........

[steve_t]

10gig


That's a serious porn collection

Maybe it's time to let it go ........

That's crazy talk

[The Everlasting]

It's probably just been moved. Hope you find it. Go to "My Computer", press F3, search for *.jpg

After you find them, back them up!

Yeah I tried searching for individual files before,and just did a search for all pictures on my computer,they didn't show up.

[The Everlasting]

10gig


That's a serious porn collection

Maybe it's time to let it go ........

Sadly it wasn't porn.

I had pictures and videos in there from the last 15 years of various trips etc,most of them taken by myself.

[steve_t]

And not in your recycle bin, right?

[The Everlasting]

Nope,not in there either.

[BoristheBiter]

Nope,not in there either.

tried all drives? C: D: etc

[Gremlin]

Has the overall free space on drive C increased?

10GB should be noticeable space wise. I came across a virus a week or two ago that hid all the folders under My Documents, and weirdly enough, if you went through My Computer, C, Documents and Settings (or Users) etc, then you could see the folder.

If its truly gone, you need to stop changing anything on the computer, and turn to GetDataBack or something like that. Data recovery is highly successful if the data hasn't been overwritten by new data. When deleted, data is not deleted until it's overwritten.

[superman]

Nope,not in there either.

What OS you using? There is an option which shows and hides the My Pictures folder, however searching should show the files, if you were searching hidden files also.

[EJK]

Has the overall free space on drive C increased?

10GB should be noticeable space wise. I came across a virus a week or two ago that hid all the folders under My Documents, and weirdly enough, if you went through My Computer, C, Documents and Settings (or Users) etc, then you could see the folder.

If its truly gone, you need to stop changing anything on the computer, and turn to GetDataBack or something like that. Data recovery is highly successful if the data hasn't been overwritten by new data. When deleted, data is not deleted until it's overwritten.

+1

Listen to this guy.

[steve_t]

Strap your computer to your bike and go to Gremlin's house
I'm sure he'll sort you out for a reasonable price