Recovering 'Missing' Folder After Using Folderlocker?

[Electerrific]

16 hours ago, fools said:

the opening post is a little too ambiguous to give advice, don't get all the abc stuff, if you could expand on that with specifics it might help.. have you tried moving the unlocker file back to the folder you moved it from?

 

you moved the main folder to your hard drive ... from where? if from another drive, an undelete utility may get it back

 

is this a 3rd party .exe (if so give a link to it), or a .cmd or .bat file (if so, open it up in notepad and post the contents)

 

there are some batch files (with similar names) around that just hide the files from view from the windows interface rather than do any encryption, but they are still there, which is why I suggested that software which will find anything on the hd.

 

 

 

I've tried to be clear. I had one yellow folder, inside it was that locker thing used to hide/display, plus another yellow folder which contained some files I hid securely, or revealed again as needed.

 

I moved the 'main' yellow folder from one location on my hard drive to another.

 

Then inside it, I moved that locker (not unlocker) file icon - leaving the files folder itself- to another folder, to foolishly experiment.

 

The folder then vanished. I think it's actually hidden, but revealing all hidden files in the properties thing reveals nothing.

 

I have just downloaded ''Everything'' from the web and it seems to locate the file names in recycle bin, with a path of E: $Recycle Bin etc, but they're usually unseen?

 

6 hours ago, *Wallace* said:

I may be well off but have you done a search for the file and clicked show hidden files ?

Yes I have.

Edited January 16, 2023 by Electerrific
update

[fools]

don't understand the question

 

what is e: a partition or external drive

 

if the missing files are in the recycle bin, right click, and restore them

Edited January 16, 2023 by fools

[Electerrific]

E: is my external drive.

 

C is my laptop drive

 

The files are NOW only showing up because I have downloaded and used the Everything app that you gave the link for

Edited January 16, 2023 by Electerrific

[fools]

ok, recover them onto the external drive then

 

then when you have them back safely, COPY them to the c: drive somewhere, so you have 2 copies

Edited January 16, 2023 by fools

[Electerrific]

Well they show up - not as they were before- but with a '$' before their path names, and cannot be yet restored, viewed or anything else.

 

I don't know the next step to get them back.

 

I dunno if this makes them hidden, encrypted or what?

[fools]

if you right click on them, is there a restore option

[Electerrific]

24 minutes ago, fools said:

if you right click on them, is there a restore option

Yes, if I see them in that ''Everything'' app window (and restore doesn't!), otherwise viewing the Recycle folder shows nothing

Edited January 16, 2023 by Electerrific

[fools]

struggling with the wording

 

if a right click shows a restore option, do it, then copy them to the c: drive, do not move them, you need two copies on different drives

[Electerrific]

Yes, thanks, I know what you mean.

 

What I'm saying is- if I go straight to the recycle folder, or do/try anything else to find these files, they're unseen/missing.

 

When I use that Everything app thing, a window pops up and 'finds' the files by name, but they don't appear as they would normally. There is a right click to 'restore' them, but this does nothing.

 

Don't worry, I think I'll just take the laptop somewhere. Thanks anyway.

[fools]

You're saying when you left click on the restore it does nothing?

 

what about if you copy and paste it to the c: drive

 

if nothing works, try an undeleter, eg recuva

 

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva/download

 

(uninstall it when you've finished, to stop it reporting home)

 

that's all a shop will be able to do.

 

you didn't answer the what is this software question, the evidence so far suggests it's a batch file which doesn't do any encryption

 

Edited January 16, 2023 by fools