ModerateNOOB Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 So i was in the middle of adding images to my NES rom hacks when i started getting the message that the game didn't exist i my game folder which i have imported to launchbox itself. Then i took a look at my game folder and noticed that it only consisted of 1630 roms where it previously held over 2000?. I know that i imported over 2000 to begin with, So how on earth is it possible for those roms to completely vanish from that folder?? ( i have not personally deleted anything??). I've looked everywhere on my pc , I've added exclusions on both windows defender and malwarebytes to the entire A:/ drive which is my external HDD on 20tb, Now i have also excluded my download folder (Just in case). Neither of my antivirus programs have found any viruses on my pc (full scans), My WD 20tb is just 2 months old and should work flawlesly (no errors or bad sectors), I've checked everywhere on my pc to see if i should have transferred them to another folder(why would i), There's nothing in my recycle bin and recuva couldn't find any rom files to recover??. It's a complete mystery and oh boy is it frustrating, How is this possible?? I'VE BEEN BLOODY CURSED, No more Castlevania 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 You didn't enable "Allow deleting ROMs when deleting games" in LB and then remove from games in Launchbox by any chance ? This setting is off by default. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModerateNOOB Posted February 18, 2020 Author Share Posted February 18, 2020 No! Just checked and it's not ticked. I don't think it's recoverable, More looking for some issue brainstorming on what the heck went wrong. But thank's for taking your time ? (Probably sleepwalking) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Yeah i'm not sure how your roms could have gotten deleted then. That was the only thing I could think of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicFan53 Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 Maybe some other external application accidentally deleted them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModerateNOOB Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 3 minutes ago, SonicFan53 said: Maybe some other external application accidentally deleted them? I previously experienced that windows defender in a nice cooperation with google chrome deleted some files i downloaded (Windows 10 has really gotten aggressive), But since then i always made sure to exclude my important files/folders and drives on both malwarebytes and windows defender. Chrome blocked the download and defender jumped in and wiped them (thank's Microsoft), And i also blocked windows 10 updates since then. I surely don't hope it's my drive which cost me a small fortune (20 tb don't come cheap). I can't get myself to make a clean win 10 install and loose close to 4tb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 I use Windows 10 with Defender but not Chrome and never had this issue. Try changing browsers to either Vivaldi (my personal favourite) or Brave which is also very nice and both are based off Chromium so all the extensions work or even Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModerateNOOB Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 21 minutes ago, Lordmonkus said: I use Windows 10 with Defender but not Chrome and never had this issue. Try changing browsers to either Vivaldi (my personal favourite) or Brave which is also very nice and both are based off Chromium so all the extensions work or even Firefox. Yeah. Trying to adapt to the Brave browser at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicFan53 Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 56 minutes ago, ModerateNOOB said: I previously experienced that windows defender in a nice cooperation with google chrome deleted some files i downloaded (Windows 10 has really gotten aggressive), But since then i always made sure to exclude my important files/folders and drives on both malwarebytes and windows defender. Chrome blocked the download and defender jumped in and wiped them (thank's Microsoft), And i also blocked windows 10 updates since then. I surely don't hope it's my drive which cost me a small fortune (20 tb don't come cheap). I can't get myself to make a clean win 10 install and loose close to 4tb. You COULD put all your files in a flash drive, install a new windows 10, then put them back? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ModerateNOOB Posted February 19, 2020 Author Share Posted February 19, 2020 10 hours ago, SonicFan53 said: You COULD put all your files in a flash drive, install a new windows 10, then put them back? It's a good idea, But there is a ton to reinstall ? For now i made a new user account and synced/Imported most of my stuff from the previous account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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