Weird file deletion? (1 Viewer)

[Dr Forinor]

After restarting the system 2 or 3 times (for updates etc), they appeared, as and where I would have expected them to be?

Ok, so they were there, but what happened??

 

[LJG]

It could be to do with security and sharing options. I had something similar happen with a shared network folder.

 

[Dr Forinor]

Can you explain further please? If they aren't showing one time, and I haven't changed anything, why would they show later?

 

[LJG]

Possibly because sharing / permissions had become corrupted.

For me, I have a server machine running Windows 8.1 and sharing all of the media files across the home network via network shared folders.
I then have 4 client PC's running Windows 7 or Windows 10.
One machine was only seeing some of the files in one network share.
This drove me nuts for ages.

Finally I fixed it by going into each file on the server that wasn't showing up and noticed that sharing with 'everyone' with 'read / write' permissions were missing from the hidden files.
The parent folder had been shared with these permissions originally.
I changed these settings and it fixed the problem.

However, that doesn't explain why the files showed on 3 of the 4 windows machines, and why the permissions had changed from when I originally configured them.

Maybe it is a 'feature' of Windows.