Vanishing files - Vista

modo77 · 5 Feb 2007 at 12:11

Strange one here, I was moving some video files from one drive to another and I was part way through the move when it stopped the transfer. So I went back to the orginal folder and the files had gone. Not in the detination either, did a search and they had gone complety.

Has anyone else had a similar oddity?

killer_uk · 5 Feb 2007 at 12:17

Strangely enough, I was copying a file (5.5gb) from my XP machine to Vista and I noticed the file transfer window had gone, so I thought it must have completed. However, the file was no where to be seen? :confused:

I thought I had accidentally cancelled it, but now you have said that, I don't know what happened.

photoshop · 5 Feb 2007 at 13:06

what the.....
vista eating up files ? :eek:

dirtydog · 5 Feb 2007 at 13:08

Reminds me of this...

http://kadaitcha.cx/vista/dogsbreakfast/dogsbreakfast_datadanger_5.html

photoshop · 5 Feb 2007 at 14:48

why o why would anyone want to upgrade to vista baffles me

Darkaber · 5 Feb 2007 at 14:57

Iv had the same sort of thing runing vista it seems to be that it somehow rolled itself back using system restore, Iv now disabled it to see if anything like this happens again :rolleyes:

cozm01 · 5 Feb 2007 at 15:06

IE7 quite often just dissapears.

Allattar · 5 Feb 2007 at 15:45

so glad i made my pc dual boot with XP and vista over the weekend. Vista is there for the future when its ready and finished and DX10 stuff is out.
Xp is there for the now.

bikes · 5 Feb 2007 at 15:52

Wouldnt it be best to copy it it over first, then if anything goes wrong you still have the original as a back up

killer_uk · 5 Feb 2007 at 16:37

As I say, I may have simply cancelled the transfer without realising, it's been flawless the rest of the time I've been using it.

Posty · 5 Feb 2007 at 17:15

I don't know if this is your problem but there is something similar on the BBC website
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6320865.stm

modo77 · 6 Feb 2007 at 09:19

killer_uk said:
As I say, I may have simply cancelled the transfer without realising, it's been flawless the rest of the time I've been using it.

I know I deffinatly didn't hit the cancel button, it just stopped on its own. Think I may try copying moving a few more files around and see what happens.