(24-07-2025, 10:16 PM)nzoomed Wrote: Thats a strange one, if you right click it and select properties and then click on the location tab, does it point to c:/users/USERNAME HERE/downloads?Right clicking on the Downloads icon then properties gives that labelling.
Size 124GB, Size on disk 120GB (mainly downloaded videos).
What I'm seeing on Google is to run CHKDSK to confirm HD integrity but as all other folders remain accessible I'm not sure that will help. Laptop is a Dell Inspiron 15 7000
(24-07-2025, 10:27 PM)king1 Wrote: yep strange, another way to try is via this PC -> Drive C: -> users ... etc as above - see if you can access it from there...Thanks. That's got me in there. I'm a bit baffled as to why this issue has suddenly surfaced as I'm not aware of having changed anything that would be relevant over the past week or two.
I would also take the opportunity to upgrade to windows 11, good chance it will fix that problem and it is pretty nice to use - tabbed explorer windows is a pretty useful feature...
Backup first though, just in case...
So far as W11 is concerned I'm hesitant to go there as I don't know how well it will work with several software packages I run for the likes of communicating with our Polestar2 EV, Evnex EVSE charging unit, solar monitoring, our own website, accounting and IRD comm's, and file accessing via torrent services. I'm just not keen on it generating a cascade of downstream issues.
I do run backups on an intermittent basis so will do so before taking that leap
