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A computer decides to delete photos?

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tcc2f6

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The problem: My girlfriends computer seems to have deleted all of her photos.

The Computer: HP 400 mhz running window's 98 and Camedia master 4 (photo program that came along with her Olympus Camera).

The Issue: She swears she never hit any delete button to delete them, she is not a moron with computers, and I believe her on this. I looked through her whole comptuer and couldn't fine a single picture or folder. (and yes, i checked the recycle bin) I helped her install the program and set up the folders and put her first set of images onto her computer. That was 5 months or so ago, and she's been using it just fine.

However, also when I was looking for pictures, I noticed that, through the use of Kazaa, she has practically filled up her entire Hard Drive. Less than 300 mb's remained free.

I have never heard of software randomly deleteing anything. I don't think it would be a hard drive problem or else at least some of the files would have been there, but corrupted or something, at least some sign that something was amiss (everything else is working fine, at least so it seems now). I have no idea what a Window's 98 box would do when it ran out of space...would that be something? I'm down to software/human error, and lord knows I can't tell her it's her fault 😉 hehe

any help would be much appreciated.
thanks
 
I'd have to agree with the virus theory... I don't know if a program can delete all image files from an entire harddrive... good luck...
 
I haven't heard of that virus, but wouldn't doubt it... Some viruses can also disable your AV protection, so...

If she doesn't have a virus scanner, I'd download AVG right now. It's free, easy to use, easy to update, free...

Another online option for a scan is Housecall. It's an online scanner that will detect if you have a virus, but won't keep you from getting the next one.

It's easy enough to scan, might as well do it - and get her current with her AV protection.

Good luck
 
Thanks a lot for the response everyone. She has Norton's 2003 on there, but she hasn't done a virus scan in a while. I will make sure she does that ASAP. However, it didn't delete all image files on her computer, only the ones that were brought in off the camera - not random ones she found on the internet or in other parts of the computer.
 
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