[SOLVED] Instantly and Randomly, My Files Were Deleted?!

[Sizer25]

I had a folder, inside a subfolder, filled with pictures. I saved a pic to the subfolder and as soon as I did, both folder became totally empty except for the new image. I used recuva and restarted my computer and nothing changed.

Any idea what in the world happened?

 

[Lafong]

Bad keystrokes or bad mouse action that were not noticed at that exact moment?

Accidentally activated "invert selection" and did a delete of those files selected by the inversion?

Recycle bin no help?

 

[ex_bubblehead]

I had a folder, inside a subfolder, filled with pictures. I saved a pic to the subfolder and as soon as I did, both folder became totally empty except for the new image. I used recuva and restarted my computer and nothing changed.

Any idea what in the world happened?

Run a chkdsk on the drive in question. It's entirely possible that the filesystem was corrupted by that last copy operation. Open a commandline window as administrator and type: chkdsk x: /f (replace the x with the actual drive letter you wish checked) Reboot when prompted. This will take a good while so just let it run to the end without interruption.

 

[Sizer25]

Bad keystrokes or bad mouse action that were not noticed at that exact moment?

Accidentally activated "invert selection" and did a delete of those files selected by the inversion?

Recycle bin no help?

the recycle bin was empty, i considered what you had said. I've decided to manually replace everything which will take some time but man does it suck lol.

Run a chkdsk on the drive in question. It's entirely possible that the filesystem was corrupted by that last copy operation. Open a commandline window as administrator and type: chkdsk x: /f (replace the x with the actual drive letter you wish checked) Reboot when prompted. This will take a good while so just let it run to the end without interruption.

Ill do this later to be sure and ill post here with an update to what I find out, thanks for the tip

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Ill do this later to be sure and ill post here with an update to what I find out, thanks for the tip

NO, NO, NO! You check the disk for errors BEFORE you do anything else. To do otherwise is to risk making things MUCH worse.