corrupt?

[Rand]

I saved a picture to my H drive, then tried to save another and got the message that the directory is not accessible. "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable."

What went wrong and is there any fix? Nothing too important, just pictures that I post here!

thanks,
Rand

 

[Corny]

can you still access the directory from the explorer? usually this should only affect one file, not a whole directory. that would be a bad sign ..

 

[Rand]

This is the file structure where the pictures are stored:

It appears I can access files already there - this is an external hard drive used for backup and storage of pictures and videos. It appears that is just "corrupted" the folder set up for pictures I've copied this year. However, the device does not want to create any new files and I think the last back-up had problems creating new files.

I didn't know if there was a way to force the device to resort and categorize the files. I thought I'd try to do a de-frag just to force that, but it appears that I can not defrag the device as there are no partitions?

I do appreciate your advice!

Rand

 

[Corny]

copy the pics that are there and still readable to a safe place. test if you can read them from there, too.

after that delete the directory and do not run defrag, but scandisc

 

[Rand]

Will do - thanks

 

[Rand]

Thanks! The backup is working as it should now. Life is better. I do appreciate your help!

Rand

 

[Corny]

The more important question is: is your other harddrive still working as it should? If scandisk fixed the problem with the folder, it was just an error in the filesystem, or maybe a corrupt sector on the harddrive. If this happens more often, you might lose data.

 

[Paws]

Always make a backup of your backup. Sounds paranoid, but it's unfortunately necessary by now :/

 

[looseliam]

^ yup! One should always have two full backups with one off-site.