As I was having various problems, I decided to re-install XP and found that all 'My documents' had been deleted.(I thought) However when using Star Office I could see documents which didn't show up in 'My documents'. After some investigation I found that my docs were still on the system, but were 'hidden' When I selected view hidden files I was able to find all my docs again. Why are files hidden in this way ?
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why are files hidden ?
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Checked explorer, but nothing in there to indicate why files are hidden, however I have another theory. When I first installed XP I created one user Geoff. On the second install i tried to create the same user and it appended some numbers to the username - something like Geoff-000
Now the system does not recognise Geoff as a valid user and therefore hides Geoffs My documents folder. Fortunately I have now managed to recover all my 'lost' documents.
Now the system does not recognise Geoff as a valid user and therefore hides Geoffs My documents folder. Fortunately I have now managed to recover all my 'lost' documents.
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