Files missing from mounted image
I wanted to explore the contents of a particular folder which was backed up a week ago as part of a system image. So I went into Utilities - Explore Image and mounted the C: Drive partition. But when I went to the folder (using Q-Dir as an administrator) on the mounted image, it had only one empty subfolder. But the same folder on my computer has 8 files and 10 subfolders. This is the users\username\documents folder I am looking at. Can anyone explain why the contents of the users\username\documents on the mounted image are missing?
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You did not, for some reason, exclude document files in the registry, for testing purposes or so?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToSnapshot
Check if the files exist in the Explore Image with Command Prompt (cmd.exe run as administrator) and then type this command:
> dir c:\users\username\documents /s (username replaced with your actual username)
By the way: Did you ever relocate the Documents and Desktop folders to another location on the disk?
Look (using Windows Explorer) at the properties of these folders, tab Location. Is it still in the standard location C:\users\username\documents?
if you relocated them, they are still visible as Documents and work that way but are actually somewhere else......