My music files and videos have all been deleted!

[ElWilson]

What should I do?

[birdy]

Are you sure they're gone? Use the computer's search to look for some of the file names. If they really have been deleted, you'll need a file recovery program to try & get them back. There are links here
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=49851

[birdy]

Damn.... I've slowed down over the day

[birdy]

It's a bit of a flea-pit actually

[DopeyDee]

I too have found that all my files have been deleted. I also found that my ENTIRE Limewire program was G*O*N*E! I was on last night, exited normally (or as normal as you can exit with AOL as your ISP) and tonight I went to startup Limewire. Imagine my surprise when the program wouldn't load. Then I loked on the C drive and found that Limewire and all its components were gone.
No one else uses my computer. The files haven't been deleted (nothing extra in the Recycle Bin except what I've put there previously), and I can't find any renamed (name or extension) files that are anywhere on my computer that are large enough to be videos or music that I can't account for.
What gives? Was/is there a virus out there that targeted Limewire?
Any help please. I'd love to recover my 2800+ files.

[birdy]

Are you using PestPatrol from AOL? It has a problem with LW, sees it as malicious & won't let it open. Use the search (top right) to look for PestPatrol, you'll find a few threads about it.

[DopeyDee]

Thanks for your email, Birdy, but you seem to be a little off the track, but I appreciate the comment.
I have been using Limewire & AOL for several years now with no problems (other than my AOL keeps locking up when running Limewire but from the Forums I'm not alone). And, no, I'm not running any of AOL's built-in scanners, virus hunters, zappers, etc. Today was a TOTAL disaster! All files & Limewire were COMPLETELY GONE! No trace! Nichts! Khong! Zip! Zilch!
I had saved the Limewire source program in another directory so I was able to reload without having to download off my sloooowwww modem. Even my download.dat file was gone.
I first thought that they might have been set as hidden files somehow. Nope! I can see all the other hidden files on the computer. I'm trying a couple UNDELETE programs to see if the files are still there but renamed in some strange convention.
I'll post if I come up with anything.

[joe cougar]

I too had Limewire vanish. I was downloading an episode of that gangster series at the time and thought it was one of the MANY corrupt,blank,mislabled files associated with that particular series.However,others posted on "Bitzi" that the file was OK and when I scanned it with ZoneAlarm it was clean. So I don't know what happened. I had to re-install LW Pro. I am on Adelphia Broadband with Win XP Home,P-4,1.8,388 RAM,tons of mem.Zone Alarm Security Suite,MSN.

[joe cougar]

Well,I'm no computer wiz by any stretch.All I know is that I was downloading a file and then there was no more limewire. Even the shortcut was gone.I was back to desktop if I recall. I had to re-install Limewire and when I did,I was not informed that a copy already existed. That's really all I know.-cougar

[joe cougar]

Well it seems to work perfectly. I want to take this opportunity to suggest that I may be in error as to what happened,as my memory (as in mental memory) is often wrong these days. I reviewed my origional notes of the incident and I wrote "Limewire Froze-up,had to re-install" and I Didn't lose my files,only the "Library" which re-populated when I re-installed,I quess automatically from my "shared" files. Sorry to be such a klutz and thanks for your help.-cougar