Files vanishing and cannot be undeleted or restored

I have never experienced such a thing. 5 files (trailers) on my D: in root. It s normal partition on built in HD. Computers in wireless connection. I was playing them on the networked comp. In Windows media player. One of them was HD mov, so I copied it onto that other comp. That was yesterday. Both computers went into hibernate after some time.

Now today I cannot find them in my root D: I even tried undelete and recovery tools - I have few of them - they even found my deleted files from last year! But not these 5 files.

Now I went back to that other comp, where I was watching those trailers yesterday, and guess what - that one file that I copied also vanished. The same thing. Undelete and recovery cannot find it. Restore either! In registry there are paths to those files in some places, so I'm not mad. WMP also has it in its history!

Now I don't get it. It is nothing of importance, but I work with computers for a loooong time. I never saw such thing.

I tried google and seems that also some other people have experienced the same things with pictures and movies. I called friend of mine - an expert in computers and he confirmed that he also experienced the similar thing and also with mp3 and movie files.

Everything else is here, and I did a backup of critical things today!

Did anybody hear of a such thing?

Cheers,

 

Are you watching these files from a networked computer, or are you watching them on the computer they are actually stored on?

Because if you watched it on a network computer, then I had the same exact problem as you. It was very strange, when I went on the networked computer, the files just arent there, but once I go onto the actual computer where the file is actually stored, and its there...I have no idea why it does that tbh.

 

Yes I was watching them over network (wireless). They disappeared both on that networked computer as well on mine! So even worse than your situation. I tried to recreate the thing, but I couldn't. Those were ICE AGE trailers and MARS canyon fly from official sites, nothing fishy. One of them was in high definition, so I made a divx using AVIVO encoder. It also vanished.

I guess backup is the only way of dealing with this. Really strange. Godd knowing that I am not mad. These things happen.

Cheers,

Ivan

 

I have absolutely no idea so I'm just guessing here.

I also watch movies over the network and copy files frequently but I have never had a problem. Could turning off hibernation help?

Also, if you can afford it, give the laptop full control over the shares and hopefully it wont murder the files.(I once tried a batch renaming program to rename and move my files to my desktop from my laptop... for a folder full of pictures.... and I have never seen them since. )