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Window Folder attributes changed


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hello

the topic title is hard to define so i will best described my issue. any help would be appreciated.

virus bit me hard.

data appears to be in folder you just can not see it in windows.

i copied the files off the disk using a linux disk into folders. i used a linux rescue av disk and watched it checking the files...it cleaned 3.

i moved those folders to my vista laptop desktop and all the data sub folders are there and named correctly they just appear empty. the attributes show the files have size...not 0.

i checked that the virus had not marked them hidden by checking the folder properties and hidden was not checked.

i am thinking i need to sort how how it is marked hidden.

files were on an xp machine. cleaned and copied offline to a working vista laptop.

anyone got any idesa. thanks if you do. the rest of you wish me luck on this. please

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files can be marked hidden as well - but if your showing system and hidden files in explorer it shouldn't matter.

But to check a files attributes you can use attrib command.

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Glad you got your files back, but doing -h down the whole tree of c:\ -- which where I would assume your OS is would of unhidden system files that are correctly set as hidden. At least it would of for the files you had permissions to alter the attrib on.

Not sure I would of done the whole drive like that, unless it was a data drive. But there are systems files that are normally set as hidden. It shouldn't cause any problems other than they would now be visible when you might not want them to be, etc.

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