All Empty Folders Deleted

Client reports that all empty folders were deleted from his drive. He does
not recall what he did. Anyone hear of this before?

Brian
Sun May 11 00:58:34 PDT 2008

On 5/10/2008 1:09 AM penncom plucked Senior Frog's Magic Twanger and said:
> Client reports that all empty folders were deleted from his drive. He does
> not recall what he did. Anyone hear of this before?

Not sure but I think that's one of the applets found under All Programs|
Accessories | System Tools | Disk Cleanup...Maybe "delete temp files"
also deletes empty folders. If not I'd look at whatever "Disk Cleanup"
applications may reside on the HDD.

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penncom
Sun May 11 10:15:01 PDT 2008

I think I've found a probable explanation... Client is quite security
conscious and uses a shredder applet included with the Wave Systems Embassy
Security Suite. Apparently, he was going through the files under Documents
and Settings | username. Later, he went to Documents and Settings | Username
| My Recent Documents. He used the shredder program to remove all shortcuts
in My Recent Documents -- instead of using the Start Menu properties to clear
it. The shredder applet deleted all empty folders.

"Brian K" wrote:

> On 5/10/2008 1:09 AM penncom plucked Senior Frog's Magic Twanger and said:
> > Client reports that all empty folders were deleted from his drive. He does
> > not recall what he did. Anyone hear of this before?
>
> Not sure but I think that's one of the applets found under All Programs|
> Accessories | System Tools | Disk Cleanup...Maybe "delete temp files"
> also deletes empty folders. If not I'd look at whatever "Disk Cleanup"
> applications may reside on the HDD.
>
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> ________
> Brian M. Kochera
>
> mailto:brian1951@earthlink.net
>