Windows Explorer can't find folder...

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I installed Diamond's One-Touch Video Capture software to convert some of my
old VHS video to digital. When I capture video the program saves it to:
C:\Program Files\One Touch Video Capture\MyVideos. Using the One-Touch
interface I can go to Open, C:\Program Files\One Touch Video Capture\MyVideos
and access my recorded .MPGs. However, strangely, I cannot get to that folder
via Windows Explorer. The One Touch Video Capture folder under C:\Program
Files shows no sub-folder.

In Tools/Folder Options, I checked "Show hidden files and folders". When I
do a search for "MyVideos" folder or for ".MPG" I get "No items match your
search". The same happens if I search for one of the files by name.

This is the weirdest behavior I've ever seen in Windows Explorer. I'm using
Vista Home Premium.

Does anyone have an idea why this is happening?

Thanks.
 
I also dont like the search function in vista, because in xp, i used to
search for a result, and then click another folder to do further search or
task. But in vista, once i click somewhere else, the previous search results
will go off!!

More over, i encountered this before --- Vista cant search file in subfolder
in a CD or DVD which is not a hidden file at all ! So i copied the entire
folder into harddisk, and managed to search the file. Thats really strange.

Besides, is the wildcard character like * still works in vista?
 
I installed Diamond's One-Touch Video Capture software to convert some of my
old VHS video to digital. When I capture video the program saves it to:
C:\Program Files\One Touch Video Capture\MyVideos. Using the One-Touch
interface I can go to Open, C:\Program Files\One Touch Video Capture\MyVideos
and access my recorded .MPGs. However, strangely, I cannot get to that folder
via Windows Explorer. The One Touch Video Capture folder under C:\Program
Files shows no sub-folder.

In Tools/Folder Options, I checked "Show hidden files and folders". When I
do a search for "MyVideos" folder or for ".MPG" I get "No items match your
search". The same happens if I search for one of the files by name.

This is the weirdest behavior I've ever seen in Windows Explorer. I'm using
Vista Home Premium.

Does anyone have an idea why this is happening?

Thanks.
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It is part of Microsoft's ill thought out and moronic so-called
"security" system. It is really smoke and mirrors. Surprise, while you
and One-Touch think it is writing to some location like in XP it
really is spoofing it and the reference is what's now called a
junction point.

I know... crazy, it's nothing new either. What's really going on is
called a Symbolic link, old news and commonly used under the UNIX
operating system. Think of junction points as pointers. You can learn
more here:

http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/joshs_blog/archive/2006/09/28/Windows-Vista-Junction-Points.aspx
 
Okay, so I think I understand about junction points, but how do I find
MyVideos folder in Windows Explorer?
 
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