Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Certain Folders are not Visible in Windows Explorer

Hellow Friends,

Last day i had a Problem with Windows Explorer due to this problem Some Folders are not visible in Windows Explorer.

My File server was 2008 R2 SP1 and accessing shared files from Windows 7 , XP and all other flavours of OS, but i was not able to access that folders.
After trouble shooting of this problem i found interesting thing, when i access folders with Full path in explorer than it was accessible, but the same folder was not accessible via Command Prompt.

I have changed Folder Option to show hidden files and Folder but the problem was still remains then after i decided to start server in safe mode and full scan with fully updated Antivirus software but problem was not resolved.

Finally i got the problem resolution with cause.

Cause :

This problem may arise due to Some system file corruption or Malicious software / Virus issues which change some system settings.

Resolution :

1) Open Command Prompt.
2) Go to your Folder Drive
3) Type Command " attrib -h -r -s /D /S < Folder Name >" or " attrib -h -r -s /D /S < *.*>"
4) hit Enter
5) Bang!!!!! now Files and Folders will appears with existing File and Folder permissions.

i also found some work around for this particular Problem.

1) http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprogeneral/thread/947489ae-dc86-45f0-ad5e-463a62e1d59f

2) http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpronetworking/thread/09bd78bf-06c3-4c85-91f7-41bc12c647bb

3) http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverPN/thread/f29363c6-c75b-44d0-91ce-e159063671d1

Cheers !!!

Gaurang Patel
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4 comments:

  1. Had the same issue with a Windows 2012 R2 server. Setting the attributes on the folder did the trick! Thanks for the post!

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  2. This is a 2-year-old thread but it came in really handy when the problem arose on a Windows Server 2012 machine. Thanks!!

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  3. Please help me i have the same issue but if i run the commant it come back with messege not resseting system file

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