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Edit: OK, so I found my data. Somehow C:\Data was found under C:\Brother\Data. Brother is to support my Brother printer. How it got moved there is beyond me. So, my desktop can find it's photos, but my Visual FoxPro still doesn't work properly. It's screen won't show.
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So, a few hours ago my data app stopped working. Just wouldn't show up when I started it. I posted at www.tek-tips.com for help but no reply there yet. So I reinstall the app (Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0) and problems persist.
In the process of this my wallpaper turned from rotating JPGs to a checkerboard blue.
Most concerning is that my data on the PC has all disappeared!!!
It's Windows 10 64bit laptop. The data was all under C:\data. That folder isn't there! I have no idea what could have screwed things up. Now, I keep my important data on my NAS, and I have no reason to believe anything has happened to that! But where is my local data??? What could have deleted it, or made it opaque to me?
Now, the only out of usual thing I did today with this machine was run a test on one of my 16GB thumb drives. I used the utility C:\Programs\h2testw_1.4_USB_Test_Utility\h2testw.exe. It's a simple utility that I don't believe you even have to install, you just run the EXE and tell it what drive to analyze and I chose the thumb drive, D:. I interrupted its execution because it was taking too long, by pressing the [Abort] button.
Before discovering that C:\Data and subdirectories was missing I tried to restore order by restoring Windows to a restore point. I only saw one to restore to which had today's date. I went through with that but Visual FoxPro 9.0 would still not open.
The laptop is a Lenovo P1 and around a year old refurb (warranted to April 2022) and has a 256GB SSD.
I do not see my \Data folder in my recycle bin. What do you suggest? Reset the machine to factory defaults (I think I have that option?), and reinstall everything and cross my fingers???
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So, a few hours ago my data app stopped working. Just wouldn't show up when I started it. I posted at www.tek-tips.com for help but no reply there yet. So I reinstall the app (Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0) and problems persist.
In the process of this my wallpaper turned from rotating JPGs to a checkerboard blue.
Most concerning is that my data on the PC has all disappeared!!!
It's Windows 10 64bit laptop. The data was all under C:\data. That folder isn't there! I have no idea what could have screwed things up. Now, I keep my important data on my NAS, and I have no reason to believe anything has happened to that! But where is my local data??? What could have deleted it, or made it opaque to me?
Now, the only out of usual thing I did today with this machine was run a test on one of my 16GB thumb drives. I used the utility C:\Programs\h2testw_1.4_USB_Test_Utility\h2testw.exe. It's a simple utility that I don't believe you even have to install, you just run the EXE and tell it what drive to analyze and I chose the thumb drive, D:. I interrupted its execution because it was taking too long, by pressing the [Abort] button.
Before discovering that C:\Data and subdirectories was missing I tried to restore order by restoring Windows to a restore point. I only saw one to restore to which had today's date. I went through with that but Visual FoxPro 9.0 would still not open.
The laptop is a Lenovo P1 and around a year old refurb (warranted to April 2022) and has a 256GB SSD.
I do not see my \Data folder in my recycle bin. What do you suggest? Reset the machine to factory defaults (I think I have that option?), and reinstall everything and cross my fingers???
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