I switched on my W10(22H2) PC this morning, went to the Documents folder, which is on a separate HDD to the operating system and it was empty, except for the Pictures sub-folder, which was itself empty. The rest of the drives contents appeared intact. I ran a disc scan of the drive which reported no errors. Fortunately I had a recent backup so didn’t lose too much, but I can’t figure out what happened to the original contents. Can anybody throw some light on the problem?
Thanks
A1ex
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AskWoody LoungerMay 17, 2023 at 10:10 am #2559974Viewing 4 reply threadsAuthorReplies-
Paul T
AskWoody MVPMay 18, 2023 at 2:16 am #2560152Did you move the documents folder back to the C: drive via Explorer?
Did you update Windows / other software?
Why don’t you have a daily data backup? Add another internal disk and run a scheduled backup to it, then copy the backups to an external disk at regular intervals.cheers, Paul
p.s. why are your docs on a separate disk?
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A1ex
AskWoody LoungerMay 18, 2023 at 5:30 am #2560167Hi Paul,
I originally moved Docs, together with several other data folders, to a separate drive so that data would be unaffected by operating system failures. It’s worked ok for a long time. This latest issue affected the Docs folder only, which surprised me. I have Malwarebytes and additional AV progs which work well.
I do have another internal disk and back up regularly to it, although not daily.
It didn’t appear to be a disk problem, since everything else on the disk was ok.
I remain puzzled.
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