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Hi i accidently did something with my pictures folder in windows. Now everything that is in my (D:) drive is shown in my pictures folder. 

What can i do to restore it or something?

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2 minutes ago, Leo_Dahlin said:

Hi i accidently did something with my pictures folder in windows. Now everything that is in my (D:) drive is shown in my pictures folder. 

What can i do to restore it or something?

Just place everything manually as it was before? If you need to, re create the folders..

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1 minute ago, Fourmi Kill3r said:

Just place everything manually as it was before? If you need to, re create the folders..

Doesn't work like that. When i delete something in pictures folder it delets it in (D:) drive.

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4 minutes ago, Leo_Dahlin said:

Hi i accidently did something with my pictures folder in windows. Now everything that is in my (D:) drive is shown in my pictures folder. 

What can i do to restore it or something?

If your on windows 10 there will be a restore feature that should be automatically enabled. Try using that. It will save you a ton of copy and pasting.

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Just now, ddbtkd456 said:

If your on windows 10 there will be a restore feature that should be automatically enabled. Try using that. It will save you a ton of copy and pasting.

I'm on windows 8.

Main: Gigabyte G1 980Ti, i5 6600k, MSI Z170A M5, 16GB DDR4 2666, NZXT H440, NZXT x61, EVGA 750W G2, Windows 10 

 

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8 minutes ago, ddbtkd456 said:

Windows 8 or 8.1?

 

Try This

Doesn't work, i need a restore point which i don't have.

Main: Gigabyte G1 980Ti, i5 6600k, MSI Z170A M5, 16GB DDR4 2666, NZXT H440, NZXT x61, EVGA 750W G2, Windows 10 

 

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Just now, Leo_Dahlin said:

Doesn't work, i need a restore point which i don't have.

Hmm...really there is no other option other then copying and pasting the files back where they go. This is why I back up my computer almost every night.

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1 minute ago, ddbtkd456 said:

Hmm...really there is no other option other then copying and pasting the files back where they go. This is why I back up my computer almost every night.

But it doesn't work. Everthing that i have in (D:) drive is shown in my pictures.

Main: Gigabyte G1 980Ti, i5 6600k, MSI Z170A M5, 16GB DDR4 2666, NZXT H440, NZXT x61, EVGA 750W G2, Windows 10 

 

Second PC: EVGA Reference GTX 680, i7 2700k, 16GB DDR3, Corsair 300R, Corsair CX500W, Windows 10

 

Laptop: Acer Aspire 5750G, GT540M, i7 2630QM, 6GB DDR3, Windows 7 

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1 minute ago, Leo_Dahlin said:

But it doesn't work. Everthing that i have in (D:) drive is shown in my pictures.

Did you computer catch a virus? This isn't normal behavior for a computer. So when you copy and paste nothing can be moved? If that's the case I would try to see if it has a virus, if not backup the important stuff onto discs and things (you should be able to burn at least still), and then reinstall Windows 8, and restore the important things back.

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Just now, ddbtkd456 said:

Did you computer catch a virus? This isn't normal behavior for a computer. So when you copy and paste nothing can be moved? If that's the case I would try to see if it has a virus, if not backup the important stuff onto discs and things (you should be able to burn at least still), and then reinstall Windows 8, and restore the important things back.

It's not a virus hehe.. I was trying to move my pictures folder to my (D:) drive from my (C:) drive since i don't want the pictures taking up my SSD storage.

Main: Gigabyte G1 980Ti, i5 6600k, MSI Z170A M5, 16GB DDR4 2666, NZXT H440, NZXT x61, EVGA 750W G2, Windows 10 

 

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Laptop: Acer Aspire 5750G, GT540M, i7 2630QM, 6GB DDR3, Windows 7 

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2 minutes ago, Leo_Dahlin said:

It's not a virus hehe.. I was trying to move my pictures folder to my (D:) drive from my (C:) drive since i don't want the pictures taking up my SSD storage.

Then can you just hit CTRL + (Point and select) your pictures and use CTRL + C to copy them and CTRL + V to paste them? I've never seen anything on a Windows machine where the CTRL functions don't work.

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3 minutes ago, ddbtkd456 said:

Did you computer catch a virus? This isn't normal behavior for a computer. So when you copy and paste nothing can be moved? If that's the case I would try to see if it has a virus, if not backup the important stuff onto discs and things (you should be able to burn at least still), and then reinstall Windows 8, and restore the important things back.

(example C:/Users/Name), go to properties, find the location tab and there will be a text box to change where it goes. Just do something like D:/Pictures/

 

is what i was trying to do. I forgot to make a folder in my (D:) drive so the pictures folder became a mirror for my (D:) drive kinda, hard to explain.

Main: Gigabyte G1 980Ti, i5 6600k, MSI Z170A M5, 16GB DDR4 2666, NZXT H440, NZXT x61, EVGA 750W G2, Windows 10 

 

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Laptop: Acer Aspire 5750G, GT540M, i7 2630QM, 6GB DDR3, Windows 7 

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2 minutes ago, Leo_Dahlin said:

(example C:/Users/Name), go to properties, find the location tab and there will be a text box to change where it goes. Just do something like D:/Pictures/

 

is what i was trying to do. I forgot to make a folder in my (D:) drive so the pictures folder became a mirror for my (D:) drive kinda, hard to explain.

However if the folder doesn't exist @Enderman any ideas for this one?

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