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Edited on Tue Jul-08-08 11:29 AM by WritingIsMyReligion
I have a back-up drive connected to about four computers in this house with many folders in it....one for me, one for my dad, one for my mom, etc. This morning I did something--apparently: I'm not even sure what--and the shortcut to my folder on that back-up (and my folder alone, nothing else) disappeared so that I can't access any of my files on it. Most of my files on the back-up are also on my computer hard-drive proper, but I had gotten into the habit of just saving to the outside drive and not to the hard-drive, and I haven't reconciled the two since probably Christmas or shortly thereafter, so that there are some documents on the back-up not also on the hard-drive.
Needless to say, I would like to regain these documents, pronto. I checked the recycling bin and found, perplexingly, some of them, but the majority are nowhere to be found. My question right now is, if I go back to a Windows restore point of, say, yesterday, will that do anything, considering that the files in question are (were?) not on the computer but on the back-up drive? I'm willing to try, even if it does nothing, but I don't want to get into any worse trouble than I'm already in. If the restore point won't help with an outside drive, do you have any idea what will?
Please, please, please....I want these files back!
On Edit: I GOT THEM BACK. It appears I, as Crabby Appleton suggests below, inadvertently dragged my folder into another folder, still within the back-up drive. I found this and fixed it up....and it still works and is perfectly accessible from MS Word, etc., etc. I am ridiculously off-target for what I wanted to do for work, etc. today and have to go into the office now, but when I get home, the first thing I'm doing is reconciling all these different folders into one another so that the hard-drive has on it everything that's on the back-up, and vice versa. Thanks for all your help!
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