Computer help forum: I can't open a folder which contains 15 GB of movies!! HELP!

It may be a corrupted file.

Windows Explorer, (what is commonly used when opening folders in XP, and includes My Documents, My Pictures, My Videos, etc), will try and render the video files in a folder if the "Folder View" is set to Thumbnails. If it comes across a corrupted video file, typically a .avi file, Explorer often fails.

The solution is to find that corrupted file and delete it. But that's the difficulty. How can you find a 'possibly corrupted' file if you cannot open the folder it is in.

The trick is to fool Explorer. Open Explorer into any other folder. Make sure the folder's View is set to Details, then goto Tools > Folder options, and select the option to "Display all folders the same", (the wording may be different).

See if that works.

Mark

Or sucker an owner into installing an enabler or viewer.

Try this. Boot up Ubuntu like the member wrote at http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7588_102-0.html?messageID=3080838&tag=forums06;search-results#3080838 and see if the content is still good.


And yes, another avenue is just the .AVI. Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIbKHryKdQk or go research this. Let's hope these didn't come from a torrent.
Bob

My opinion is not something I will post.

And the results?

As to your toasted machine, go back to before cucu-days.

Of course you can reload the OS, restore from backups, etc?

If not, please tell.

Also, your backup or system restore would be prior to the disaster. I guess that could be unclear to some.