Missing Folder ???

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I've had a pretty big day, so my brain might not be at a 100%. It really mustn't cause I can't figure this out...

I've got 2 drives - 1 240GB SSD (C: ) and 1 2TB HDD (1.81 actual) (D: ).

A ~300GB folder just disappeared from my D: drive. I use this folder pretty much every day, so I know roughly how big it was.

I know for a fact that D: had 200GB (out of 1.81TB) left on it an hour ago. Actually there has been about 200GB left on it for the past few weeks.

I was deleting files from another folder in D: just before this happened.

Now the thing that's getting me is that I still only have 200GB free on D:. If the folder has really been deleted, then I should have about 500GB left on D:, right?

I've tried the following:

Turned on 'Show Hidden Items'
Run a search in D: for the folder (and a couple of individual files)
Run a search via Start
Checked for errors in D:
Run optimisation for D:
Run a virus scan
Run a malware scan
Restarted windows

I'm on Windows 10. I have BitLocker on and I don't back this drive up.

Can anyone help?
 
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Check to make your your drive space has not shrink for one, HDD's degrade over time and as sectors go bad the drive writes to it's cmos which sectors to skip. It's rare for an entire folder to disappear via this way. Another thing, (And this happens to me a lot.) is that you were doing something and you dragged your folder into another directory with out noticing. Other than that, you might check to see if your anti-virus quarantined it. You might also check your shadow copy.
https://wiki.carleton.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=9968143
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Check to make your your drive space has not shrink for one, HDD's degrade over time and as sectors go bad the drive writes to it's cmos which sectors to skip. It's rare for an entire folder to disappear via this way. Another thing, (And this happens to me a lot.) is that you were doing something and you dragged your folder into another directory with out noticing. Other than that, you might check to see if your anti-virus quarantined it. You might also check your shadow copy.
https://wiki.carleton.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=9968143
 
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Okay, so the drive space is the same as it's always been. It hasn't been quarantined, there are no previous versions and system restore isn't set up for this drive.

What's bugging me is that I have the same amount of space left on the drive. This makes me think that perhaps (unlikely) it's been accidentally moved into another folder. The problem with this is that when I run a search for the folder or a file in the folder, nothing comes up...
 
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Do you know the name of an item IN the folder you lost? might try that encase your renamed/merged a folder.
 
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This makes me think that perhaps (unlikely) it's been accidentally moved into another folder.

I knew it. I knew it! When I went back and added that '(unlikely)', I knew that I should't have been...I was thinking about this scenario...but I was so sure...

Found it.

Thanks for taking the time to respond, I really appreciate it!
 
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