OneMoreLastCast Posted June 8, 2008 Posted June 8, 2008 I got a new laptop recently and just discovered something very strange, (and very frustrating), happening. The folders on my desktop that I saved pictures to for various fishing outings have no pictures in them anymore!!! They somehow deleted themselves.... I know they were there and I know I didn't delete them, but they're gone. Luckily, I saved most of them on my Photo Bucket page, but the ones I didn't, seem to be gone for good. I am the only person that uses the laptop, so I know it wasn't someone else deleting them. The fishing pictures suck to lose, but I also lost the pictures in the folder for my youngest daughter's Birthday party. Must be another one of Vista's bonus features! Has anyone else had this happen? Quote
kungfool Posted June 8, 2008 Posted June 8, 2008 I got a new laptop recently and just discovered something very strange, (and very frustrating), happening. The folders on my desktop that I saved pictures to for various fishing outings have no pictures in them anymore!!! They somehow deleted themselves.... I know they were there and I know I didn't delete them, but they're gone. Luckily, I saved most of them on my Photo Bucket page, but the ones I didn't seem to be gone for good. I am the only person that uses the laptop, so I know it wasn't someone else deleting them. The fishing pictures suck to lose, but I also lost the pictures in the folder for my youngest daughter's Birthday party. Must be another one of Vista's bonus features! Has anyone else had this happen? I would be looking to see if you have been hacked. That would be my num 1 guess. Quote
OneMoreLastCast Posted June 8, 2008 Author Posted June 8, 2008 That was my first thought, but after running a number of checks, I eliminated that possibility. No Trojans, Worms, etc. Plus, even if it was a hacker, it doesn't make sense. To just randomly delete a few fishing pictures from folders wouldn't really prove anything. Maybe it is the work of the worst hacker in the world.... I think it is just more Vista BS myself. Oh well, more reason to back up all of my pics on my External HD as soon as I save them. Quote
Brownstone Posted June 8, 2008 Posted June 8, 2008 have had similar stuff happen between my home (XP) and work (Vista) machines...copy stuff to a folder on my home computer, bring it to work copy and it works fine until I need it again..then its gone and I look like a fool..Bill Gates and Peter Norton are high on my "jackasses of a lifetime" list. Quote
beedhead Posted June 8, 2008 Posted June 8, 2008 I just got a new notebook with the new ''Vista'' program...Haven't lost any pics as of yet, but the new program does some wierd things once in a while.... ..Maybe I'll check my pics right now... Quote
tbone Posted June 8, 2008 Posted June 8, 2008 Is it a possibility that you've used 2 different cameras to take those pics? The software pulling pictures from your camera to your computer may have overwritten some of your old pics if the filename was exactly the same.... Say for example you have a canon camera...each picture it takes saves the file as imgxxxxx.jpg where xxxx is an integer that increments by 1 for each picture during the lifetime of the camera. If you have another camera that saves pictures with the same filename format its possible that when these photos were written to your pictures folder by your camera software, that older files with the same filenames were overwritten....hope this makes sense. Quote
admin Posted June 8, 2008 Posted June 8, 2008 Did you do a search of the hard drive for all your images? Go to the seach in Windows Expoler and use the *.jpg search term. Quote
OneMoreLastCast Posted June 8, 2008 Author Posted June 8, 2008 Yeah, I tried a search and got nothing. It's no big deal, just strange. I back all photos and video up as soon as I put them on my computer, so I didn't lose anything important. I have only put pictures on from one camera and have only been using this laptop for less than a month, so there isn't a lot on it so far. Windows response was simply..."There are some bugs with Vista we are still working on. Thank you for your inquiry and hopefully it will be fixed now that it has been brought to our attention...." Between Vista and having to adapt to the changes made to Office 2007, I'm not the biggest PC fan at the moment. Quote
wongrs Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 perhaps a disk cleanup function that compressed, renamed and moved them somewhere else? Quote
Hawgstoppah Posted June 15, 2008 Posted June 15, 2008 rofl sorry... playing with the new 6 million emoticons! Quote
Hawgstoppah Posted June 15, 2008 Posted June 15, 2008 And yeah you guys for sure made up my mind to stay with XP for at least a good long while.. Quote
bhurt Posted June 15, 2008 Posted June 15, 2008 Brett, I heard on the news thursday or friday morning about a virus that attacked jpeg files (most commonly used for photo's) and did something with encryption (5am in the morning and I am not fully awake) Maybe talk to headscan he knows more about that stuff then myself. Quote
headscan Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 This is the thing Brad's talking about: http://www.symantec.com/en/me/security_res...-99&tabid=2 I don't think that's it, though. You'd be seeing a message pop up on your screen all the time and other files like Word docs and Excel spreadsheets would be missing as well. Still a good idea to give the computer a scan with up to date AV software. Being a Mac user I haven't touched Vista at all so unfortunately I can't really help with that end of things. Quote
flyfishthebow Posted June 17, 2008 Posted June 17, 2008 Could it be that Desktop Clean-up was ran and it removed your folder on the desktop? I turned it off, it was getting annoying along with everything else from Vista Quote
flyfishthebow Posted June 17, 2008 Posted June 17, 2008 I wonder if system restore would bring them back? Quote
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