Where oh where have my pictures gone...

"Duncs" <true.kilted.scot@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 23 Oct, 13:08, "Dave-UK" <Here@home> wrote:
>> "Duncs" <true.kilted.s...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> > On Oct 21, 7:47 pm, gls858 <gls...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >> Duncs wrote:
>> >> > On Oct 17, 6:56 pm, "Tae Song" <tae_s...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >> >> "Duncs" <true.kilted.s...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> >> >>> Oh where oh where can they be!
>> >> >>> Help, but I can't find my Pictures amywhere on my hard-drive. I've
>> >> >>> looked in "C:\users\duncs\documents\Pictures", but I don't have a
>> >> >>> folder called "documents", or indeed one called "Pictures".
>> >> >>> In Explorer, under 'Desktop | Duncs' I have the following, among other
>> >> >>> things:
>> >> >>> Documents - This has a location of G:\
>> >> >>> I don't however, have anything for 'Pictures' or 'My Pictures'. When
>> >> >>> I do a search on my G:\ drive, for .JPG files, it lists all the
>> >> >>> picture files that I have...so where are they? Displaying the folder
>> >> >>> shows the following-"My Pictures (G", but still I can't find them.
>> >> >>> There is no folder called 'My Pictures' or 'Pictures' on the G: drive.
>> >> >>> If I try to right-click and open location, I get the message "G:\My
>> >> >>> Pictures is not accessible. The directory name is invalid."
>> >> >>> Can anyone help?
>> >> >>> Many TIA
>> >> >>> Duncs
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>> >> Try navigating to that folder from My computer or Windows Explorer
>> >> instead of cutting pasting the path. You might be copy a space before
>> >> or after the full path name.
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>> > No folder called "My Pictures" appears in the G: drive, although a
>> > search does display this as the path to the files.
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>> You seem to be getting nowhere with Vista's search.
>> Download the free version of AgentRansack and
>> search for .jpg files:http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransa...page=download- Hide quoted text -
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> This just gets better!
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> I've just ran AgentRansack on all my internal & external drives,
> seaarching for .JPG files. Yes, it found some, but these were ones
> that are part of apps etc. The most curious thing is, it didn't find
> any of the images that I've mentioned before...the ones that should be
> in "My Pictures" or "Pictures" and that Vista's own search locates, in
> the correct location, with no problem!
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> Any suggestions?
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You say that Vista's search tells you that it has found files but you cant find them.
Then AgentRansack tells you that it can't find the files that Vista says it found.
I would rather believe what AgentRansack says than Vista's search results.

It's probably Vista's convoluted indexing that's the problem; maybe Vista is relying
too much on an outdated index of files instead of the actual files themselves.

If AgentRansack cant find your files then they are not there.
I disabled Vista's search and the search service long ago, I found
it just too unreliable.