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Date Posted: 20:06:16 02/25/08 Mon
Author: Kimster
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Disappearing files under a specific user.......Inside for details

About 6 months ago, I logged onto my desktop and all of my icons were gone, email was empty, it was as thought it was a brand new user account. I was able to recover the emails and files and copied them over into a new user. This weekend, I came home and the samething happened again to the new account I created 6 months ago, only this time, the "my document" folder was completely empty, and she files were moved into a temp directory. By the time I made a new user and was ready to copy over the temp folder, everything was gone. All my school files, saved FF's everything was gone. I was able to recover the emails, but no files. Even system restore didn't help. I did have a backup and could restore from that, but I'm afraid I have a worm or something that neither Norton or Mcafee is picking up, and I'm going to have this same problem again. There are two other users on this computer and nothing has happened to them.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Kimster

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[> Sorry kimster wish i could help you out i will ask my friend who is well up on computers maybe she could help you i will ask her to post it on the board if she can help you okay. -- Bev uk, 13:08:43 02/27/08 Wed [1]

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[> Thanks, all of my IT friends are stumped! -- Kimster, 20:26:55 02/27/08 Wed [1]

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[> Hi kimster dont give up i spoke to my friend and she is looking in to it for you okay, she is the best lol so i have faith in her and i think she will do her best to help you out. -- Bev uk, 04:49:40 02/28/08 Thu [1]

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[> any luck yet? -- kimster, 19:21:12 04/01/08 Tue [1]

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[> I hate to even suggest it but the two other users.........are they beyond suspicion? -- Peggy C., 17:08:19 04/04/08 Fri [1]

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[> [> They would be my teenagers, and my user is password protected and the administrator and they have limited rights, and I made sure the password was something they would never figure out, so I didn't reference HARM at all. -- Kimster, 17:16:40 04/04/08 Fri [1]

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