i just moved a file from my C drive to my D drive and now every file on my D drive alphabetically after that file is missing. is that good. where did they go lmao
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I'm a database specialist, sometimes called to decipher bad behavior on corporate servers.
It amazes me what I must troubleshoot to keep my Microsoft and Linux "home" machines running, in the year 2025. I have had to update BIOS twice in the past 6 months.
i think that's exactly what happened, i think one of the babies hit a button on the keyboard that told it to eject the D drive in the middle of transferring the file. why that made the computer unable to index a bunch of unrelated files is still unclear to me
Think of it like trying to keep a phone number in your head and each number is a file but you are adding a new file so the phone number changes and you have to remember it long enough to write it down but then your kid distracts you and now you can only remember the numbers that didn't change.
my neighbor had me download a windows store app that can fix this but i am finding the black screen with white text frightening, this looks like something the lone gunmen would use to access pentagon secrets
Sounds like the Explorer has just issues showing the files. Maybe try a different type of file Explorer light midnight commander to see if it will list them.
Other options are downloading a Linux and opening the drive via booting from an USB stick.
But I've never heard of this issue before. But don't worry, I'm sure it can be fixed.
However the effect may be due to an underlying issue with the hardware, like a slow drive failure. So let someone have a look at that, if you don't know how to do that.
I read the whole thread. I'm so sorry. My husband is good at that stuff and it's a damn good thing. I had babies during the whole "spooling up computers" phase of life and missed a lot. I feel your pain.
Years ago one of my coworkers attempted to delete one folder inside her larger project file, but instead somehow deleted our entire share drive and all the many years worth of collective work on it, leaving only her own project file standing. How? No one really knows. Thankfully it was salvageable
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It amazes me what I must troubleshoot to keep my Microsoft and Linux "home" machines running, in the year 2025. I have had to update BIOS twice in the past 6 months.
Other options are downloading a Linux and opening the drive via booting from an USB stick.
However the effect may be due to an underlying issue with the hardware, like a slow drive failure. So let someone have a look at that, if you don't know how to do that.