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22-02-2023, 04:36 PM
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Pick up your mouse and blow as hard as you can into the underside where the red led is in an attempt to remove the fluff and hairs that are probably there.
Actually just reread your your post and folders deleted from flash drives never appear in the Bin.
I would have a look in other folders on the flash drive and see if the missing folders have been moved to another folder on the flash drive.
Try another known good mouse to stop the problem happening again if blowing away the dust does not work.
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Sorry I wasn't clear its the cursor from the pad on laptop not a separate mouse.
Yes i looked at other files on FD not there.
Saw some programs you can down load to recover things from FD.. possibly but they all seemed a bit complicated, and dont know if they were safe to download.
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use the undo button next time, been there since Windows 8 iirc.
I would be looking inside the folders on the flash drive, and maybe grab a new mouse...
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Can you remember the name/s of the folder/s or any of the files that moved? If so, you might be able to search for them by name. Hopefully you only need to find one to find the rest. It must be very frustrating but does highlight the importance of backups, especially for files on memory sticks.
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Use this program from MajorGeeks which is a safe place to download from:
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details...table.html
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Thank you thank you!! SueDonim, I thought I had looked in the other folders, but did search and there the 2 folders are under another folder I hardly ever used.
Im going to do another copy of flash drive.
And thanks to others for links to other programs to use as have previously lost things that don't show up in search but not related to flash drive
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Turn off the touch pad and use a mouse.
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