Received my shiny new W7 DVD in the mail yesterday, and immediately set about upgrading my Vista Dell 1520 notebook. Everyghting went relatively smoothly after freeing sufficient space on C: drive. I chose to upgrade Vista, rather than clean install. The disk is partitioned: 30 GB C:, 110 GB D for data, 10 GB X: recovery. The free space on D: was about 16 GB before and after update (as expected). All my data files are on D: drive.
Using Windows Explorer, I looked for photos which should be located in D:UsersPublicPictures@@NetworkSync in a series of subfolders named by year and month. The folder structure is intact, but no files are visible. Yet the files *seem* to be there because the amount of free space on the disk indicates they are still present on the disk.
I tried adjusting the permissions on the folder. Went into D: root folder and applied permissions for the Everyone account; all permissions are enabled. Then I drilled into one of the data folders, and checked the Effective Permissions for the Everyone account. As far as I can tell, my user account (Jack) should have full permissions on the folder (I know enough about the permissions to be dangerous, but I am not an expert. I may have misunderstood how it works.)
I use a Standard account. The folders were fully visible under Vista. The Public Pictures special folder had been moved to D:UsersPublicPictures under Vista.
Any idea how to make the files visible?
PS. Any help appreciated, but if you ask a question and don’t get an immediate response from me it’s because I travel for a while without the computer starting tomorrow.
PPS. The files are all backed up, so no loss if they can’t be recovered but the disk has insufficient room to restore them!
