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Hi I recently got a laptop for my uncle, he has used some software that he got with his camera to try and transfer files from his camera's mem card to his laptop running win 7. He believes he has transferred the files ok and that he doesn't need to press a button etc to save them to his pc/laptop as the program automatically does this (has done this on his pc running windows xp). The next time he switched his laptop on the files were nowhere to be found. I have tried searching in the usual folders etc e.g. my docs, pictures etc the desktop, and also the software folders but could not find anything. My sister then had a look using the search facility which did bring up the files in a temp folder. She then cut and pasted the files into a newly created folder on desktop and they were there and fine and my uncle used the camera software to view them. All was fine and then the next time he went into the laptop, the files and even folder on the desktop are nowhere to be seen. He is sure he hasn't deleted the files/folder atall. After performing many searches again nothing has been traced.
I was wondering if this could be due to him not properly transferring the files from the camera to the laptop in the first place and maybe he has just viewed the photos from the memory card. Could this have created temporary files on the laptop hence they could be found in Windows Search that have then been deleted as soon as he shut the laptop down? He has a\lready deleted the files off the memory card hence the problem.
I am trying running Recuva seacrhing the entire HDD.
Once that is complete I will try running a chkdsk but doubt there is anything up with the disk as it is strange how everything else is fine.
Any other thought or suggestions as to how this may have happened and how to possibly retrieve the files?
Any help is much appreciated - I have the same laptop but am not yet used to using Win 7.
I was wondering if this could be due to him not properly transferring the files from the camera to the laptop in the first place and maybe he has just viewed the photos from the memory card. Could this have created temporary files on the laptop hence they could be found in Windows Search that have then been deleted as soon as he shut the laptop down? He has a\lready deleted the files off the memory card hence the problem.
I am trying running Recuva seacrhing the entire HDD.
Once that is complete I will try running a chkdsk but doubt there is anything up with the disk as it is strange how everything else is fine.
Any other thought or suggestions as to how this may have happened and how to possibly retrieve the files?
Any help is much appreciated - I have the same laptop but am not yet used to using Win 7.