Depending on what goes wrong with your computer, you can lose files
wherever they are stored on your hard drive. The only real answer is
to backup regularly.
My husband fixes computers and is constantly either giving people the
bad news or attempting to salvage files off corrupted disks.
Cathy
At 02:07 PM 17/05/2006, you wrote:
Now for the reason why I suggest not to store anything that is
important under My documents is that the Username/My Documents
folder is a part of the windows OS environment. I recently had a
problem with my Windows OS becoming corrupted and had to reinstall
windows. When you reinstall windows the My Documents folder gets
written over and recreated thus wiping anything you had there. Even
if you tell the install to keep the directory structure. If your
username was password protected you will not be able to access those
files even though they are still there. I was lucky in that most of
my genealogy stuff was in a separate folder outside of the My
Documents folder and was able to access them but had to reinstall
the programs that were needed. I did have some genealogy documents
in My Documents and was never able to access them including stuff in
My pictures and My videos. File manager saw the files but when I
tried to access them I was given an error message of "Access denied"
Russ Strong
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