My Pictures?

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Alan Holmes

I had a couple of 'sensitive' pictures, so I 'hid' them, but I cannot find a
way to retrieve them, how the hell do I get them back?
 
Alan said:
I had a couple of 'sensitive' pictures, so I 'hid' them, but I cannot
find a way to retrieve them, how the hell do I get them back?
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Depending on what you mean, an dsince you offered no details of any kind,
two things occur to me:
-- Reverse whatever process you used to hide them, and/or

-- Use Search to search for partials of the filenames. If you set the
Hidden attribute, then it all off first.

Pop`
 
I had a couple of 'sensitive' pictures, so I 'hid' them, but I cannot find a
way to retrieve them, how the hell do I get them back?
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That's a very hard question to answer, since you've told us nothing
about what you did to hide them.
 
Poprivet said:
Depending on what you mean, an dsince you offered no details of any kind,
two things occur to me:
-- Reverse whatever process you used to hide them, and/or
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The problem is that I can't remember what I clicked on, all I can say is
that I got a window which asked me whehther i wanted to hide the pics, which
I did, and they immediately vanished.
-- Use Search to search for partials of the filenames. If you set the
Hidden attribute, then it all off first.
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The 'filenames' I made no note of so I can't do a search for them, I was
expecting to find something which said 'restore', or 'unhide'!

Alan
 
Try a system restore. They may revert back to where they were.
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System Restore restores the operating system, and doesn't affect a
user's data files.
 
That is true but the addresses of the users data files may be restored.
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I have no idea what Alan did when he "hid" the files, so I asked him
for clarification. He has not yet replied. Until or unless he does, I
am not willing to guess what the problem may be, and make any
recommendation at all. A guess at a solution, if the problem is
misunderstood, may make the situation worse, not better.


 
Unknown said:
Try a system restore. They may revert back to where they were.
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Thanks for all the suggestions, I have now managed to get them back.

All I have to do is to remember how!
 
Have NEVER heard of anyone making a problem worse by system restore. Have
you?
Ken Blake said:
That is true but the addresses of the users data files may be restored.
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I have no idea what Alan did when he "hid" the files, so I asked him
for clarification. He has not yet replied. Until or unless he does, I
am not willing to guess what the problem may be, and make any
recommendation at all. A guess at a solution, if the problem is
misunderstood, may make the situation worse, not better.
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Have NEVER heard of anyone making a problem worse by system restore. Have
you?
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I said you could make the "situation" worse. System Restore undoes
changes--those you might want to keep as well as those you don't.
Running System Restore when it isn't likely to solve a problem can
undo changes that you might want kept.

 
Try to remember approximate date in which pictures were originally saved and
after searching for all image files, sort them by date. Also try to sort by
size, because 'sensitive' pictures tend to be large in terms of kilobytes.
 
A decision has to be made as to whether or not to run system restore. "Isn't
likely" to solve a problem doesn't cut the
mustard. The problem needs fixing. Changes you want to keep can always be
remade.
Ken Blake said:
Have NEVER heard of anyone making a problem worse by system restore. Have
you?
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I said you could make the "situation" worse. System Restore undoes
changes--those you might want to keep as well as those you don't.
Running System Restore when it isn't likely to solve a problem can
undo changes that you might want kept.
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Well I do not know how you hid them so assuming you deleted the files from
your computer they are still on your computer except the binary code has
changed. If this is the case there are programs that will restore deleted
files usually by type. So you would try to restore files of a jpeg type.
You may want to look on Google to see if there is a free program that does
this. Hope this helps.
Kaja
 
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