Folder Disappeared when dropped on Temp Folder

[Guest]

Hi, i have sort of an odd problem here...

I accidentally dropped a folder with 15gigs of pictures into a folder under
C called ae343o43839843984 (not exact name but you get the idea). I did it
because i'm on a laptop and when you scroll it sometimes grabes things, so it
was by mistake as i was scrolling mouse in Windows Explorer.

I'm guessing that's where i accidentally moved it, i'm not positive, but it
is showing up there with a .log file next to it. It is now 258kb in size
though. NO windows opened showing a transfer in progress, which is what would
happen for a folder that big. So did it just move a folder with the file
name/properties info for the pics?

Either way, i need to get these pics back and i'll do whatever i have to.
Can anyone help?

Things i tried: When i try to open the tiny folder under that ae2323 folder,
which is directly under C, i says access denied. I tried restarting, pics
still missing. I did a properties check on the C drive, it shows they are
still there since only 5gigs are free and they are over 15gigs. So now what?

Chris

 

[Elmo]

Hi, i have sort of an odd problem here...

I accidentally dropped a folder with 15gigs of pictures into a folder under
C called ae343o43839843984 (not exact name but you get the idea). I did it
because I'm on a laptop and when you scroll it sometimes grabs things, so it
was by mistake as I was scrolling mouse in Windows Explorer.

I'm guessing that's where I accidentally moved it, I'm not positive, but it
is showing up there with a .log file next to it. It is now 258kb in size
though. NO windows opened showing a transfer in progress, which is what would
happen for a folder that big. So did it just move a folder with the file
name/properties info for the pics?

Either way, I need to get these pics back and I'll do whatever I have to.
Can anyone help?

Things I tried: When I try to open the tiny folder under that ae2323 folder,
which is directly under C, it says access denied. I tried restarting, pics
still missing. I did a properties check on the C drive, it shows they are
still there since only 5gigs are free and they are over 15gigs. So now what?

Chris

Immediately afterwards, you might have been able to press Ctrl/Z to undo
the move.

Use search to find *.jpg and try to find their location. Look at the
path to see where they were moved.