Re: *all* of my documents suddenly became "hidden"

PepperMary <PepperMary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

help. I was desperately searching for a Word document I'd been working on
all day ... I had saved it numerous times, but after exting Word could not
find the doc.

It was originally an email attachment, so I went to hunt around for a "temp"
folder where it might be stored. It soon became clear to me that all the
pertinent folders are "hidden," so I went about checking the "show hidden
files" box for several of the folders under \documents and settings.

Long story short, now ALL of the contents of "My Documents" are showing up
as "hidden."

That's what the "read-only" box for directories does: it's a short cut
to set or clear the read-only flag for *all* files in the directory.
(Directories themselves don't have a read-only property.) So go back
to the directory's properties box, and click on that box until you get
a box with out a gray or green block and without a check (that will
probably happen on the first click). Then click "Apply" and the files
will no longer be read-only.

Look here: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326549 for more
information.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@xxxxxxx
.

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