explorer and folders created by other programs

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I created a download folder for gigatribe. From gigatribe I can find the
folder and its contents, but not through explorer.
A similar issue happened with VuePrint, the photo editing/managing software
that I use. If I move something to an existing folder I can find the file. If
I create a file with VuePrint then it and its contents remain hidden.
Any ideas?
 
KB said:
I created a download folder for gigatribe. From gigatribe I can find the
folder and its contents, but not through explorer.
A similar issue happened with VuePrint, the photo editing/managing
software that I use. If I move something to an existing folder I can find
the file. If I create a file with VuePrint then it and its contents remain
hidden. Any ideas?
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You left out the most important information: where you are creating these
folders. My guess is that you're creating these folders in an area
protected by the operating system such as Program Files instead of
somewhere in your user account. If you're not making your folders in
%systemdrive%\Users\your-username\new-folder then try doing that instead.

Malke
 
The files are hidden because the application is trying to write to a system
protected part of the operating system, most likely inside Program Files. In
order to enable backwards compatability, we allow applications to think that
they're saving files to Program Files, but we're actually saving the files to
an alternate path within C:\Users\User_name\AppData\Local\VirtualStore. If
you navigate to the folder within an explorer window that contains files in
this location, you should see at "Compatability Files" link the commands bar
in the explorer window that will navigate to the associated "VirtualStore"
directory.

Please see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927387 for more information.

Thanks,
Justin
 
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