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Luka Patterson

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Hello! This is my first post in a while, so I'll head straight to the point:
Yesterday everything was fine, today everything is not fine.

My music is all gone! Yesterday, it was there and I was able to listen to it as much as I please but today when I ran iTunes and selected a song to play, it came up with the 'unable to locate' error message, when I tried manually navigating to it there was nothing there: the folder is there and when I right click and check properties it says that there is a total of 59.7gb in my root music folder but inside each individual folder there is absolutely nothing. I have my computer set to show hidden files and I've tried running a program called unhider but both have shown no positive effects.
Can anybody lend me a hand?
(and/or redirect my thread to a more appropriate board)
Cheers,

Luka

If it matters, I just replaced my HD5770 with a HD6850 this morning but that might just be a coincidence.

#Edit;
I've also attempted a system restore (to no objective success)

Edited by Luka Patterson, 18 February 2012 - 08:04 AM.

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Luka Patterson

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Hopeful bump.
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Ztruker

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My first suspicion is you have picked up some kind of malware. Please go to the Virus, Spyware, Malware Removal forum, read the first post and follow instructions.

The reason I say this is I recently fixed a computer with malware that had set the hidden attribute for every file on the computer so you couldn't see anything, even when I had show hidden files setup.

Come back here once you get a clean bill of health if you still have problems.
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