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My Docs disappearing

Nov 19, 2010 4:45AM PST

Hello. I have Alienware Aurora with Win 2007 - 64 bit - 6 Gb ram i7 CPU 920 @ 267 ghz.

The My Docs icon disappears regularly off my task bar. What's much much worse is that all documents before Nov 8 disappeared along with it last week. I had a backup and was able to restore them all up to Nov 5. The icon still keeps disappearing and I am worried new docs will eventually go too.

Stan

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Just to start this off.
Nov 19, 2010 10:42PM PST

Any date/time problems on this system?

Windows 7 doesn't have a special "My Documents" folder the same way that XP did, instead it is a folder with the path "C:\Users\(Username}\Documents", where {Username} is the name of the account you are logged into Windows with.

So where did you get this "My Docs" folder from to pin it to the Taskbar?

Does the "Documents" link in the Start menu still show the full contents of your folder, eg no missing document files?

Nice system. I have the Alienware Area-51 X-58. Happy

Mark

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Hi Mark
Nov 20, 2010 1:53AM PST

Thanks for weighing in. It's not a My Documents folder exactly. It's an icon that looks like a folder and has always sat on the lower left side of the taskbar. When you click on it, it shows 4 icons in another window that is headed with "Libraries." The 4 icons are "documents" "Music" "Pictures" and "Videos."

The taskbar icon began to disappear periodically in the last couple of months, then very recently when it left it took all the documents with it except the most recent. Clicking on folder within "Documents" also exhibited another strange effect at times. Instead of showing a full list of the internal documents, there were only two choices: TXT and RTF. Click on one showed those with that extension. Weird. That's when I started to see some of them go missing. Then one day, they're all gone. I wonder if it's possible to reset the computer to defaults without losing installed programs or other settings.

Stan