Windows 7 Windows claims to see files that don't exist.

[NemesisZeRo]

Hi

This is a strange phenomenon that I never have come across during my many years of fiddling.

I saw on my media server b(running on Windows 7), a series that was misplaced, upon opening the correct directory, I found.. nothing, the directory and the files didn't exist in the series directory.

I then used Windows search function and searched for the series, and found them..
Well, Windows explorer claimed to have found them in the same location I just manually searched.

After a recheck, I found.. nothing..
Then I used a third party search program, it found the series, but found them in the right directory, and after a check, sure there that were.

The storage device is a USB hard-disk.
I've scanned the drive for errors, but nothing was found.

I'm little clueless right now ..

 

[Neemobeer]

Are you sure these files don't have the H and/or S attributes set on them? Hidden or system files won't show in explorer by default.

 

[NemesisZeRo]

Are you sure these files don't have the H and/or S attributes set on them? Hidden or system files won't show in explorer by default.

Yeah, I always activates that function explorer.

 

[Neemobeer]

Since this is not local, do you have offline files enabled in control panel?