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Saphire - 25 Apr 2007 11:26 GMT

I have lost all of the media files out of my music folder. But when I open
the Media player, they are all still there, and playable. I have searched the
computer everywhere for the files, but I cannot find them. Any ideas?

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Byte - 26 Apr 2007 20:46 GMT

Go to: Start>Search>Al Files and Folders (Look in: harddrive "C")>
type a single word of one of the song titles and press Search.
When it finds it, you can hover over it or rightclick it to see its
Properties and Path where it is located and probably all the
other songs you are missing. Very likely in a Playlist.

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> I have lost all of the media files out of my music folder. But when I open
> the Media player, they are all still there, and playable. I have searched the
> computer everywhere for the files, but I cannot find them. Any ideas?

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Saphire - 27 Apr 2007 03:26 GMT

I have tried that. According to the path, the files are all in the "My Music"
folder. But alas.. when I look in that folder, no files. But they still all
play in the Media Player.. You think a virus maybe?

> Go to: Start>Search>Al Files and Folders (Look in: harddrive "C")>
> type a single word of one of the song titles and press Search.
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> > the Media player, they are all still there, and playable. I have searched the
> > computer everywhere for the files, but I cannot find them. Any ideas?

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Byte - 28 Apr 2007 15:10 GMT

No, not a virus. You should have two (2) instances of "My Music"
directories. One, at your desktop icon My Documents\My Music.
The other at: Documents and Settings\your name\My Documents\My Music.
If you have a home network, you may have another one under Shared Music.
When you find one of the files, rightclick it and click Properties. Then look
at the line that states Location. There you'll see the Path where the music
files are located. You can use Windows Explorer to navigate to that directory
and you can drag&drop, copy&paste or whatever you please.

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> I have tried that. According to the path, the files are all in the "My Music"
> folder. But alas.. when I look in that folder, no files. But they still all
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> > > the Media player, they are all still there, and playable. I have searched the
> > > computer everywhere for the files, but I cannot find them. Any ideas?

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