Are These Files Corrupted?

[kiwddip]

After a windows force update i lost alot of files.

 

This is what is currently shows when i right cilck properties

 

This is what showed up before the update

 

When i tried to copy paste the folder to a new location it said that the folder was 121gb and had 43,595 files (After the transfer was completed and i right clicked properties it showed the same thing as the first screenshot) It also took up 121gb on my hard drive.

 

I'm not sure if this means my files are corrupt (I'm not sure if they are even in the folder anymore). I have also tried clicking on some of the files and all of them open up normally (I've went through atleast 200-300)

 

I appreciate all of the help i can get to recover the files

[RuffRuffmcgruff]

Welcome to the forums! What did you have saved on your desktop that was 45 GB? I would normally say the loss of "files" after a windows update are the updates themelves being installed. Windows preloads updates and then installs them which would explain the file "loss".

[kiwddip]

I only noticed they were missing after the update. It was a bunch of png, jpgs, gifs, webm, mp4, vlc files

[kiwddip]

22 hours ago, RuffRuffmcgruff said:

Welcome to the forums! What did you have saved on your desktop that was 45 GB? I would normally say the loss of "files" after a windows update are the updates themelves being installed. Windows preloads updates and then installs them which would explain the file "loss".

I only noticed they were missing after the update. It was a bunch of png, jpgs, gifs, webm, mp4, vlc files

 

[RuffRuffmcgruff]

5 minutes ago, kiwddip said:

I only noticed they were missing after the update. It was a bunch of png, jpgs, gifs, webm, mp4, vlc files

 

Bit of a stupid question but have you checked in your recycle bin? If they aren't in there download and run Recuva, I've used it a couple of times now and most the time it will help you out. https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

[kiwddip]

1 minute ago, RuffRuffmcgruff said:

Bit of a stupid question but have you checked in your recycle bin? If they aren't in there download and run Recuva, I've used it a couple of times now and most the time it will help you out. https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

Like i said on properties it says its only 76.6gb but when i try move it, it says that its 124gb. I've already checked in my recycle bin and stuff. I hope recuva works for me 

[RuffRuffmcgruff]

I should've asked before but do you have hidden files viewable? You can check by going to This PC and clicking the View tab then check the box Hidden Items, if it's already ticked see what Recuva brings back.

[kiwddip]

4 minutes ago, RuffRuffmcgruff said:

I should've asked before but do you have hidden files viewable? You can check by going to This PC and clicking the View tab then check the box Hidden Items, if it's already ticked see what Recuva brings back.

I have the hidden files thing on and the file recovery just completed, it only found 2k files (2.6gb worth)

[RuffRuffmcgruff]

Could be that your profile could be corrupted, are you confident in Regedit? If you are open it up and head to HKLM>Software>Microsoft>Windows NT>CV>ProfileList open that directory up and there should be a key for your profile, you know if the entry of ProfileImagePath says your username on the right handside. Your profile is corrupted if this key under ProfileList ends in .bak

[kiwddip]

15 minutes ago, RuffRuffmcgruff said:

Could be that your profile could be corrupted, are you confident in Regedit? If you are open it up and head to HKLM>Software>Microsoft>Windows NT>CV>ProfileList open that directory up and there should be a key for your profile, you know if the entry of ProfileImagePath says your username on the right handside. Your profile is corrupted if this key under ProfileList ends in .bak

 

is that what you mean?

[RuffRuffmcgruff]

1 minute ago, kiwddip said:

 

is that what you mean?

Yeah so on the left you'll see a key starting in S - and a bunch of random letters and numbers. Does it end in .bak?

[kiwddip]

1 minute ago, RuffRuffmcgruff said:

Yeah so on the left you'll see a key starting in S - and a bunch of random letters and numbers. Does it end in .bak?

None of them end in .bak

[RuffRuffmcgruff]

5 minutes ago, kiwddip said:

None of them end in .bak

Do you still have the original folder that you copied over? I'm going to the gym now so I'll have a look when I come back

 

[kiwddip]

4 hours ago, RuffRuffmcgruff said:

Do you still have the original folder that you copied over? I'm going to the gym now so I'll have a look when I come back

 

I do still have the folder yes

[RuffRuffmcgruff]

19 hours ago, kiwddip said:

I do still have the folder yes

So the files have only gone missing after you've pasted them to the new location?

[kiwddip]

On 6/28/2018 at 12:23 PM, RuffRuffmcgruff said:

So the files have only gone missing after you've pasted them to the new location?

No the files are missing from the folder itself, When i copy and paste the folder to a new location it says that its moving 43,595 files which is 121gb in size.

[RuffRuffmcgruff]

On 29/06/2018 at 5:55 PM, kiwddip said:

No the files are missing from the folder itself, When i copy and paste the folder to a new location it says that its moving 43,595 files which is 121gb in size.

Do you have any backups of the folder? It's sounding more and more that it could be lost.