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Missing file names

Started Dec 27, 2018 | Discussions thread
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Re: Missing file names
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HI peeps - thank you all for the replies. Sorry it took so long to get back to this thread, but been very busy and had a computer crash due to trying to get the lost file names back.
Sueanne, the camera did come with a manual, but I cannot find any information that would help remedy this problem.

JShen88, I do  have a small amount of the picture files backed up elsewhere. I have also tried the 'restore point' approach, to no avail. Indeed it is so typical that this must surely be due to a software glitch.

I have a funny feeling that this disaster was caused by a forced update to Windows 10 from Windows 7. I never needed, wanted, or agreed to have the 'forced update', but alas Microsoft have become much less than decent in so forcing that update on people, no doubt for Microsofts benefit rather than consumers. In my view, Windows 95 was far better in many regards. Imagine that!!! Now, 24 years later? Windows 10 is the worst OS. WT frick.
It's also become much harder to use Google to find some information or do research due to their commercial model that seeks to profit rather than acting as a global index for the the world.

There are others who have reported similar problems with file names going missing after that Windows 10 update. Despite having tried several supposed solutions to the problem, nothing has thus far worked. As said, this is a disaster; many years of work hang in the balance.

requa/Dan, yes the files have names that have been attributed to them, numerically. So they might go something like this: img_1, img_2, img-1007 etc. Obviously that was not the way the files were originally named. It is like this in all directories and file managers including ZB. Somehow - possibly via the Windows update - the way the files are named has changed from what I named them, to numerically. It would seem odd, that this data could just disappear.
Any way...blah blah huh. Thanks again peeps. If any other idea's...please share.

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