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Missing Directory

17-Feb-16 02:33

This morning on my PC I had a near death experience. A directory with about fifty files was missing.

Fortunately, I had backed up the important files in that directory, so I created a new directory, and copied the important files to it.

Just now I found my missing directory with all of the files inside another directory that I have never used.

I am glad I have my files back. I certainly would like to know how the directory got moved.

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17-Feb-16 13:16

Something I have come across many times as an IT weenie is the "accidental drag and drop". People do it all the time without realizing it and a quick search for the folder name or a file name can find it easily.

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13-Apr-16 09:20

Yeah I've done the old "accidental drag and drop" more often when I'm dragging something into the left pane of an explorer window. But it's also fairly easy to do without noticing or meaning to.

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