Windows Explorer - Folder Empty!
Using Windows explorer, I copied a folder from a backup to my current computer. This was a subfolder of My Documents. After the copy completed, I went to copy another folder, but now in Windows Explorer there are no files listed in C: from my backup (there are 3 partitions - C:, System Reserved, and NTFS (53-3). In Explorer, the file size of the .tib files are still correct. I went to the ATI application and did a file restore of 1 file, and it is still there, and restored properly. Why can I no longer see the files of my backup in Explorer? Also, when I navigated to My Documents in my current computer after the file restore, I no longer had access to the folder! I had to edit the permissions. I have only one user, and I am Administrator.
Any ideas what is going on?


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Thanks Steve! After a reboot all the files reappeared in explorer.
I didn't look at any options when I restored, so that must be what happened. I'm familiar with the options when I backup, but this was my first restore, even if it was only 1 file, and I didn't look at options. I'll be more diligent next time
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Rick,
Not sure what version of Windows you're running, but from time to time, my Windows 7 system simply does not refresh automatically after copy/paste and/or delete. Like you, a reboot usually resolves the issue or I have to remember to hit F5 or click out of the fodler and navigate back into again. Doesn't happen often, but does show up from time to time and I'm wondering if you experienced something similar in this case.
http://www.itworld.com/article/2827156/windows/what-to-do-when-windows-…
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Bobbo, I'm using Windows 10. I remember that kind of thing in windows 7. I would delete a file, it still appeared, and when i tried to delete again I got 'file not found'.
This might be related. But in this case after copying a folder from the .tib file to my HDD, the Drive C: partition in the .tip file displayed as completely empty! Not what you want to see when browsing your backup! But all is good...
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I wonder if it is getting logged as a system file upon restore? For instance, I found that using robocopy.exe in Windows, if you do any copy to the root of a Windows OS drive (C:\) and not in a specific folder, the copy will succeed but then nothign is there. This freaked me out a few times because the drive space had changed. I foudn that robocopy was setting the restored folder on the root of C: as a system folder so it was hidden by default. I would them have to runn "attrib -h -s" on the folder and it would show up as expected.
I've not experienced something like this with Acronis recovery, and if reboots are working, I guess you're OK now, but something to look into if/when it happens again.
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I just restored another single file using ATI file restore. Sure enough, I had used the default settings last time, which kept the original permissions. When I unchecked the "Recover Files with their original security settings" box, I didn't have any problems accessing that file. So thanks for hipping me to that, Steve!
I'll eventually be moving the entire backup to a new machine. Old machine died (not the hard drive), and I have a full backup with 3 incrementals from the day before it died, as well as the intact SSD from that machine. I haven't yet decided exactly how I'm going to handle the restore (copy disk with Universal Restore, copy data folders over, try sticking the old SSD in new machine). So I'll have some questions when I get to that...
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Rick, thanks for giving feedback, it always helps to have this for other users to find in the forums.
If you are going to move the SSD to a new system then you will need the Universal Restore media to try to make this bootable by making the drivers generalised, but there are some gotcha's with regards to other differences that you may have between the old and new hardware. Bobbo will be able to advise you in more details in that area, but things like the SATA mode used in BIOS, type of boot (Legacy vs UEFI) etc where you may need to try to match your old configuration as much as possible to get this to work. Lastly there is also the issue of Windows activation unless you have a Retail version of Windows 10 - all OEM versions are licensed only for the hardware they were initially activated on.
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If you move your Windows 10 installation to a new computer, it might just boot up right away... It did for me, although I was also moving from a BIOS set up to a UEFI set up. Further, I could image the MBR disk and restore it to a GPT disk and still boot up right way.
So you might be lucky with hardware swap. If not, Universal restore will be necessary.
You might still ahve the Windows license issue, if not OEM, as Steve suggested.
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