Contents of the external drive not displayed in Explorer

Hello

I have a Seagate 2 TB external backup drive. When I backup files and click on the drive, he said only: "this folder is empty". However, if I search for a file or directory appears. I read something to the effect that Windows 7 does not show files if a drive is great, but I can't find the source of this now. I've searched high and low online and thought if it was a common problem there would be many cases.

In an attempt to get around this I partitioned the drive into partitions that were the same as the readers, I wanted to save, then their correct content displayed in Solution Explorer. Even with the partitions the content is still not accuse unless I am looking for a particular item.

Really can not understand what the files are there and Explorer can see if I search, but is not a viable solution, because most of the time you will want to navigate you.

Would be very grateful of any thought.

Thank you very much

The files of higher level or hidden folders?  Go in the "Folder Options" Panel, click on the 'View' tab, then check the "Show hidden files, folders and drives" and uncheck "Hide protected operating system files" (ignore the complaint).  You see now?

If the directories are not hidden, then it might be a permissions problem.  If the root directory of the partition does not grant you permission "Content of the folder", then you would not be able to see the content of the top-level directory...  However, default users have the right of "override the control of", if you specify a directory more than you don't have the "contents of the folder" permissions, then you can see the files and folders.  To check this:

Drive right click on "Computer"-> properties-> Security (tab)->

and check that an user/groupname name your connection belongs to (click) is drawn with the line "List the contents of the folder" checked in the column "allow".  To verify that you are a member of a group (for example, 'users'), you can set up a line of command prompt and type a command like:

net localgroup users

and you will get a list of users in the group "users".

For more information about permissions, try this link:

"How to set, view, change, or remove special permissions for files and folders in Windows XP"

<>http://Support2.Microsoft.com/kb/308419/en-us >

(Ignore this is for XP...  It's practically the same thing for Windows 7)

HTH,

JW

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