XP and have lost all my photos/videos - cannot find anywhere (help) grateful suggestions

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  El Capitan provides a new application called, Photos, which you can import them into your iPhoto library. iPhoto will not work in El Capitan, unless you are able to update the version you have now:

  Terence Devlin

  April 14, 2015 14:21

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  Install the application on the App Store.

  IPhoto is sometimes not visible on the shopping list. It may be hidden. See this article for more details on how to view it.

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• Lost all the photos, videos... etc, how can I recover it.

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  My Favorites, libraries; photos, videos, documents, desktop icons, RSS, history, programs, download, security, Internet, saved connection information is missing? I found my PC is off and when I turned it back I had no internet connection, without saving restore PC emits flags, and everything was gone. ?  Where it's going and how do I get it back?  It took me two days, but I finally got back, connection to the internet had to re - install Windows 7 home Premium to do it, then able to connect to the internet, but security is still doesn't work so I instaleled! E 9 and Silverlight and now running of security scan as I type this. However, the rest that I mentioned at the beginning is still missing.  Is still on my PC somewhere?

  How can we just not on my PC?

  Hi Patrick Froog,.

   
  1 have had any changes made to the computer before the question?
  2. When you say reinstalled windows run you own or custom installation?
  3. What antivirus do you use?
   
   

  See the following steps:

   

  Step 1:

  If you performed an installation custom of all the music, photos, will be stored in folder Windows.old.

  Data will be present in the following location folder\users\username c:\Windows.old.
   
  Installation and reinstallation of Windows 7
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/installing-and-reinstalling-Windows-7
   
   
  Step 2:

  Viruses are also known to cause this kind of questions. Please scan your computer from a Microsoft Security Scanner, which would help us to get rid of viruses, spyware and other malicious software.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

  Note: The Microsoft Safety Scanner expire after 10 days from the date of installation.

  Note: The data files that are infected must be cleaned only by removing the file completely, which means that there is a risk of data loss.

  Step 3:

  Virus would have hidden folders, try to view the folders and check

  Show hidden files

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/show-hidden-files

  Hope this information helps.

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  Sorry, but the action to create a new synchronization with the same account caused e-mail address your data from the server. In addition, 'coupling' and the 'Sync' button has not been used in over a year, with 28 Firefox being the last version to use the old version of Sync. Then it uses Sync on a device as a backup, something that Sync was not intended to do service

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  @ddw36

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• I seem to have lost all my photos except that I was trying to export. Help?

  I have

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• I have a virus inches in my file and I lost all my files from the image. How can I get them back?

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  =====================================
  Are you running Windows XP?

  Please post more details. The more information you share
  you chances of a solution.

  How do you know it was a virus?

  The virus has been removed?

  When the problem happened everything first?

  "Was" folder on the desktop? You say all
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  Is it possible that your files are still there but have
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  Lillie

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  Note that the system restore do not know or care about the personal files on your system.

  Unless there's a disaster or instead of a system restore you done a system recovery files would be still on your system somewhere - you just find them... and when you find them, you can correct what happened.  If you have made a recovery of the system instead of a system restore, then all is lost and you need to recover from a backup.

  Have you performed a search of Windows to see if you can find some of these photos and files?    For example, you could search for something like "Resume.doc" or a file name that you remember exactly to see if it is anywhere on your system and where it is.

  Why don't you get in Windows Explorer and (assuming that XP is installed on your C drive), navigate to this folder:

  C:\Documents and Settings

  Below, you will see that each user on your system has their own folder for their personal belongings.  You will see also some folders listed user that you do not recognize, but that's normal.

  Under the folder of each user, there is another folder, as "Documents of Jose" and under this 'Jose music' and «De Jose Pictures»  Dig a little and check them all to see if you can find your missing stuff.

  Just take a look in the Control Panel, add/remove programs to see if "missing" programs are still installed, but all not available when you are logged in (you don't have to 'do' something - just look at).

  Assuming that you can find your missing stuff, determine where we (which will make feel you better knowing that it is not really gone), then report back and someone can help you straighten things.

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  What do you mean she has changed?

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  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/932912

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  Download and Installation Help-
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  http://www.Adobe.com/downloads/other-downloads.html

  Quickly find your serial number

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  Mobile device users forget they are mobile, devices computer and more prone to problems/failures of devices with random data loss and do not have a strategy for storage/recording of data to other sources or sites in order to protect their valuable data on their mobile devices.

  Mobile electronic devices aren't as strong and as stable as the most modern computer hardware, like a laptop or desktop.

  All data important like the pictures and any remarks important and documents should not be long term stored on a mobile computing device such as a smartphone or a Tablet and must be saved in the long term location a real computer with more than one hard drive for backup or store these data on multiple devices or multiple storage media devices.

  Significant data redundancy is key if a peripheral device or mobile storage goes down or something happens to the data.

  It is a very sad but strong lesson learned for you and any other person who finds and reads this message.

  I'm sorry.

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  http://www.Google.com/search?q=retrieve+lost+files&ie=UTF-8

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