Deleted "My Received Files" Items

[confused]

I just opened "My Received Files" to look for a file that was previously
transferred through MSN, but all of the files were gone! Does Windows
automatically delete the files once it reaches a maximum limit, and can I get
the information back?

 

[Mark Dormer]

In MSN goto Tools - Options - File Transfer
Check the path that received files are going to is the one you are
expecting.

Messenger doesn't have any automatic mechanism to delete these files.

Regards
Mark Dormer

 

[confused]

No, my MSN has that already setup to go into "My Received Files"
I can still receive files perfectly fine, and was able to before, too. All
of the sudden it just disappeared.
Right now I have 2 ideas - it might have been deleted by the computer (does
it have a setting to clean up C: Drive occasionally?), or it may have been a
virus (however, when I ran a virus scan, nothing showed up).

Thank you.

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[Mark Dormer]

The built in Disk Cleanup does remove files but you have to tell it to
delete stuff.
And I don't believe it ever cleans up anything inside My Documents.

Regards
Mark Dormer

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

The built in Disk Cleanup does remove files but you have to tell it to
delete stuff.
And I don't believe it ever cleans up anything inside My Documents.

And it does nothing on its own. It must be told by the user to do it.