Re: Lost Files in XP Home
From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 03/18/04
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:35:14 -0800
Sorry, John, if those files don't appear to be where they belong and you
can't find them on a search of the drive, there's not much else I can offer.
Sorry I couldn't be more help.
-- Michael Solomon MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Backup is a PC User's Best Friend DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/ "John L" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:f2c701c40ca0$436cf010$a301280a@phx.gbl... >I appreciate your attempts to help. You're right about > the backup lesson here. > >>-----Original Message----- >>You're not beyond help but you are moving beyond our > ability to help. You >>can try running a search on www.google.com for utilities > that can retrieve >>deleted or lost files. If that fails, depending upon > how important these >>files are to you, you might consider a service that > handles this sort of >>thing. There are usually ads in the back pages of most > computer magazines >>for such file retrieval services. Since they retrieve > files from hard >>drives that have been virtually destroyed by fire and > flood, they probably >>can help you as well but the services are expensive. >> >>-- >>Michael Solomon MS-MVP >>Windows Shell/User >>Backup is a PC User's Best Friend >>DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/ >> >>"John L" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in > message >>news:f0cc01c40c61$4ebfcc10$a501280a@phx.gbl... >>> Still trying to recover "My Documents". Have tried >>> suggestions provided in response to earlier post, all >>> without success. Found article in Knowledge Base that >>> suggests that I may have lost them when I tried to >>> get "File & Printer Sharing" & "Client for Microsoft >>> Windows" off the installation disc. Article suggests > that >>> if you install XP to same folder as original > install, "My >>> Documents" (and other things)may be deleted. I'm >>> beginning to think that's what happened. All of the > files >>> are gone, but the "Recent Files" folder shows shotcuts > to >>> all the files and folders that were in My Documents. Of >>> course, when I click on the shortcuts, the items can't > be >>> found. I've done a search including hidden files & >>> folder, etc., and they don't show up. >>> >>> I tried to do the suggestion made by Michael Solomon to >>> my earlier post. He said: <<Navigate to the files, > right >>> click, select properties, go to the Security tab, click >>> advanced, go to the Owner tab and select the user that >>> was logged on when you were refused permission to > access >>> the files. Click apply and ok. Close the properties >>> box, reopen it, click add and type in the name of the >>> user you just enabled. If you wish to set ownership > for >>> everything in the folder, at the bottom of the Owner > tab >>> is the following selection: "Replace owner on >>> subcontainers and objects," select it >>> as well.>> But, I don't find any Security Tab. (Maybe > I'm >>> just being obtuse, but when you say "Navigate to the >>> files" I presume you mean any files I find in "My >>> Documents"? Only file I find there doesn't have >>> securities tab in properties. It is labled "Desktop >>> COnfiguratin Settings" and when I open it, its a > Notepad >>> doc and the first line is "[DeleteOnCopy]". >>> >>> Am I beyond help in retreiving my lost files? >>> >> >> >>. >>
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