lost files

Upgrading to a new operating system should feel like an exciting leap forward, but for many users, it can lead to the unsettling experience of discovering that some files appear to have vanished into the digital ether. If you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 or 11 and suddenly find yourself playing a...

Just like the title says, i am able to search for my documents and i can find them but when i double click to open the message comes up saying "there was an error opening this document. This file cannot be found."

Not sure if I can post this here... but gonna try.. Yesterday while using Outlook 2013. Using IMAP, I wanted to share my folders on my computer to another computer, these folders weren't on the IMAP server only locally. I did abit of reading here and there on how to do this and one way to do...

I moved files onto an external disk. During the move, the data suddenly vanished. It was nowhere. Not on the target drive, not on the origin. What happened? How do I get the data back?

I tried to copy my itune music to a usb drive. I had 70gb of music, now I have only 39gb of music. Can some one tell me how or can found this music on my computer.

I have been working on 3 wordpad files and I just leave the files open and save whenever I add new data to them. This morning I got on my laptop and clicked wordpad and all 3 files are completely blank and they are now just titled "Document" instead of the save name they had. I went to find the...

Hey guys, I turned on my pc and only got an black screen I got a dell (adel hello xd) anyway I use windows 7 professional I got 64 bits 4 ram. my dad looked on the pc and was doing so stuff and he said some long file is lost its called win.19838474829w99283838383 or something I dunno but I dont...

My computer (ACER) has windows 10. Mid-last week, overnight, the windows updated by itself. The entire format of my computer change and my documents were all moved around. I generally keep most of my documents on the desktop, which was now moved into another separate folder that I had to find. I...

Can someone help please. My hp PC seemed to seize up. I found there was no restore point. Evidently this was not turned on! I didn't know I had to do this on Windows 10. Anyway, I pressed recovery instead. I was warned I would lose apps. What I didn't know was that I would lose Microsoft...

Like a lot of people, I waited til nearly the last minute to upgrade my computer from Windows 7 to Windows 10 last month in July. However, years before that, I was using Windows XP. During my time with XP, I had countless files of my childhood, including pictures, school stuff, and videos. When...

I've had Windows 10 for a while on my HP laptop. Yesterday, I got a gray screen and was unable to do anything without resetting the laptop to factory format. Now I have lost windows 10 and am back to Windows 7. Furthermore, my backup CD's won't reset/recover my former settings and all my...

I made 5 audio tracks with my friend the other day and they've been permanently deleted by accidentally clicking undo, undo, undo, undo, undo, new folder on the desktop where I saved them. I used software called recuva which lets you go back to recover permanently deleted files but it only...

All my Hotmail e-mails have disappeared. I have tried logging in using my Hotmail email address and password but cannot get anything at all except Microsoft this and that. I starting to get a bit peeved with Windows 10, it's messed up all my accounts and finally done away with all my emails past...

I hope I'm in the right place. A while back I was copying some family files over from some (a few ancient, like 1990s) hard drives on my Ubuntu rig over to a new external 1TB NTFS HD formatted in Windows 8, nothing special. I was using the Ubuntu rig cause a few of them wouldn't initialize in...

HAPPENED TODAY. I haven't switched the laptop off since this happened (in case that helps find it!!). I was working on a Doc and decided to put it into a different folder, which I did. I also happened to empty the Recycle Bin. So the original was deleted! When I went to work again on the...

Hi, I just updated my resume and created several versions. I went to the folder that I had them in because I wanted to open them all to figure out which one I liked the layout of best, but for some reason I pressed control + z while I was in the folder. It deleted one of the files, so I pressed...

When i try to put something on my desktop in a folder it just say ''There are is no C:/user/arab/desktop verify the object place and try agian. I just deleted some things. Some files movies and useless things. I think i might have deleted something that i needed. Any help would be appreciated.

Happy to be here and without further ado. I will share my experience of using the Mac OS and offer the way (or share the way) about recovering the files you've lost from your Mac. So just wait and see.

My wife's laptop broke. Sony Vaio running windows Vista. I took out the hard drives. (It has 2 of them) I plugged my SATA/IDE to USB adapter to one of the drives and I got a message saying I must format the drive before I can use it.im running a toshiba laptop with windows 7 64 bit. I plug it...

I have an 8GB flash drive I got from my college. Half of it is filled. I plugged it in this morning and all my files are gone. But under My Computer, it says 4.64 of 7.50 is free. What should I do?