My Pictures? "Alan Holmes" <alan_holmes[ at ]nowhere.com> 6/2/2007 10:29:17 PM 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?

Re: My Pictures? "Poprivet" <poprivet[ at ]devnull.spamcop.net> 6/2/2007 10:36:16 PM Alan Holmes wrote: [Quoted Text] > 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? 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`

Re: My Pictures? "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> 6/2/2007 10:47:58 PM On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:29:17 GMT, "Alan Holmes" <alan_holmes[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >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? That's a very hard question to answer, since you've told us nothing about what you did to hide them. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Re: My Pictures? "Alan Holmes" <alan_holmes[ at ]nowhere.com> 6/3/2007 11:14:15 AM "Poprivet" <poprivet[ at ]devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message news:%23QPX2YWpHHA.5092[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Alan Holmes wrote: >> 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? > > 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 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. 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

Re: My Pictures? "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> 6/3/2007 4:25:59 PM Try a system restore. They may revert back to where they were. "Alan Holmes" <alan_holmes[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message news:1bm8i.8883$VS.5371[ at ]newsfe3-win.ntli.net... [Quoted Text] > > > 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? > >

Re: My Pictures? "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> 6/3/2007 5:21:46 PM On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:25:59 -0500, "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> wrote: [Quoted Text] >Try a system restore. They may revert back to where they were. System Restore restores the operating system, and doesn't affect a user's data files. >"Alan Holmes" <alan_holmes[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message >news:1bm8i.8883$VS.5371[ at ]newsfe3-win.ntli.net... >> >> >> 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? >> >> > -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Re: My Pictures? "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> 6/3/2007 5:26:45 PM That is true but the addresses of the users data files may be restored. "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> wrote in message news:r3u5631l4jtp08nbbg98a5bbu9jo2j4lpo[ at ]4ax.com... [Quoted Text] > On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:25:59 -0500, "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> > wrote: > >>Try a system restore. They may revert back to where they were. > > > > System Restore restores the operating system, and doesn't affect a > user's data files. > > >>"Alan Holmes" <alan_holmes[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message >>news:1bm8i.8883$VS.5371[ at ]newsfe3-win.ntli.net... >>> >>> >>> 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? >>> >>> >> > > -- > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User > Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Re: My Pictures? "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> 6/3/2007 6:05:01 PM On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:26:45 GMT, "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> wrote: [Quoted Text] >That is true but the addresses of the users data files may be restored. 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. >"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> wrote in message >news:r3u5631l4jtp08nbbg98a5bbu9jo2j4lpo[ at ]4ax.com... >> On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:25:59 -0500, "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> >> wrote: >> >>>Try a system restore. They may revert back to where they were. >> >> >> >> System Restore restores the operating system, and doesn't affect a >> user's data files. >> >> >>>"Alan Holmes" <alan_holmes[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message >>>news:1bm8i.8883$VS.5371[ at ]newsfe3-win.ntli.net... >>>> >>>> >>>> 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? >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User >> Please Reply to the Newsgroup > -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Re: My Pictures? "Alan Holmes" <alan_holmes[ at ]nowhere.com> 6/3/2007 10:29:41 PM "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> wrote in message news:mYB8i.14169$C96.5749[ at ]newssvr23.news.prodigy.net... [Quoted Text] > Try a system restore. They may revert back to where they were. > "Alan Holmes" <alan_holmes[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message > news:1bm8i.8883$VS.5371[ at ]newsfe3-win.ntli.net... >> >> >> 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? Thanks for all the suggestions, I have now managed to get them back. All I have to do is to remember how!

Re: My Pictures? "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> 6/4/2007 3:11:23 PM Have NEVER heard of anyone making a problem worse by system restore. Have you? "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> wrote in message news:4h06639saf0b1bjmt3bbgpubeh751ebtde[ at ]4ax.com... [Quoted Text] > On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:26:45 GMT, "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> > wrote: > >>That is true but the addresses of the users data files may be restored. > > > 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. > > > >>"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> wrote in message >>news:r3u5631l4jtp08nbbg98a5bbu9jo2j4lpo[ at ]4ax.com... >>> On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:25:59 -0500, "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> >>> wrote: >>> >>>>Try a system restore. They may revert back to where they were. >>> >>> >>> >>> System Restore restores the operating system, and doesn't affect a >>> user's data files. >>> >>> >>>>"Alan Holmes" <alan_holmes[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message >>>>news:1bm8i.8883$VS.5371[ at ]newsfe3-win.ntli.net... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 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? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User >>> Please Reply to the Newsgroup >> > > -- > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User > Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Re: My Pictures? "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> 6/4/2007 8:47:38 PM On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:11:23 GMT, "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> wrote: [Quoted Text] >Have NEVER heard of anyone making a problem worse by system restore. Have >you? 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. >"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> wrote in message >news:4h06639saf0b1bjmt3bbgpubeh751ebtde[ at ]4ax.com... >> On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:26:45 GMT, "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> >> wrote: >> >>>That is true but the addresses of the users data files may be restored. >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >>>"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> wrote in message >>>news:r3u5631l4jtp08nbbg98a5bbu9jo2j4lpo[ at ]4ax.com... >>>> On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:25:59 -0500, "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>>Try a system restore. They may revert back to where they were. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> System Restore restores the operating system, and doesn't affect a >>>> user's data files. >>>> >>>> >>>>>"Alan Holmes" <alan_holmes[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message >>>>>news:1bm8i.8883$VS.5371[ at ]newsfe3-win.ntli.net... >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> 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? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User >>>> Please Reply to the Newsgroup >>> >> >> -- >> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User >> Please Reply to the Newsgroup > -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Re: Remember when? "Juan B. Rivera" <juanbriv[ at ]pionline.net> 6/5/2007 7:17:31 AM 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. "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> wrote in message news:mrs363pf8gdufmovui3u0hsnd8dk8apum3[ at ]4ax.com... [Quoted Text] > On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:29:17 GMT, "Alan Holmes" > <alan_holmes[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote: > > >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? > > > > That's a very hard question to answer, since you've told us nothing > about what you did to hide them. > > -- > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User > Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Re: My Pictures? "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> 6/5/2007 1:45:03 PM 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, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> wrote in message news:hfu863hlqpsbvmuvbohofl9s42qsvu671f[ at ]4ax.com... [Quoted Text] > On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:11:23 GMT, "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> > wrote: > >>Have NEVER heard of anyone making a problem worse by system restore. Have >>you? > > > > 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. > > >>"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> wrote in message >>news:4h06639saf0b1bjmt3bbgpubeh751ebtde[ at ]4ax.com... >>> On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:26:45 GMT, "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> >>> wrote: >>> >>>>That is true but the addresses of the users data files may be restored. >>> >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>>>"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> wrote in message >>>>news:r3u5631l4jtp08nbbg98a5bbu9jo2j4lpo[ at ]4ax.com... >>>>> On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:25:59 -0500, "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Try a system restore. They may revert back to where they were. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> System Restore restores the operating system, and doesn't affect a >>>>> user's data files. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>"Alan Holmes" <alan_holmes[ at ]nowhere.com> wrote in message >>>>>>news:1bm8i.8883$VS.5371[ at ]newsfe3-win.ntli.net... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 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? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User >>>>> Please Reply to the Newsgroup >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User >>> Please Reply to the Newsgroup >> > > -- > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User > Please Reply to the Newsgroup

RE: My Pictures? Kaja 6/6/2007 2:55:00 PM 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 "Alan Holmes" wrote: [Quoted Text] > > > 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? > > >