Basically, I accidenlty formatted my hard drive containing 200 Gigabytes worth of music and I managed to do a data recovery and recovered all my files. The biggest problem now is that I get random pictures like: AlbumArt_{1A0BE7CA-E232-47AA-BC22-6BB435999C6E}_Large.jpg in ALL my music folders! How come they are not hidden? Should I delete them and manually hide them myself? How do I get all of these pictures hidden again? http://www.youtube.com/judenihalmusic

superjnf, how'd they get there? Are they part of the recovery software? Trojan? Seems to me you oughta be able to select the ones you want (ctrl+return) and either move them to a separate folder or delete them as you wish. HTH. Ed in Texas.

They would have got there from the ripping software - if you use anything with CDDB access then you often get a thumbnail of the relevant album cover alongside the tracks you've ripped. They were almost certainly always there & shouldn't have been hidden (unlikely to be if they were just standard jpegs). If you don't want them, just do a search for *.jpg in your music folder & delete them. Then go & get an external drive & backup everything, just in case! "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us..."

Thanks for the replies. I think they were hidden Windows Media Player files which apprear to be not hidden anymore since I used a 3rd party software to recover everything. Its a mess now and I am pissed off for formatting the drive. Here is my story. Its Windows Vista's fault. I was basically transferring one drive to another. I wanted the 2nd drive to be neat, so I did a defrag on the 2nd drive and formatted the 1st drive, but then overnight, stupid Windows Vista went to Sleep. I powered on the machine and it gave me an error message. Then I looked at the 2nd drive and it told me that its corrupted, then I went berserk and used a recovery software to copy back all the data from the formatted drive into the 2nd drive (after remaking the 2nd drive's partition). I shouldn't have formatted the 1st hard drive if I knew this was going to happen. This is such a mess. Getting back to my issue, I decided to search for all JPGs in the music folder and hide all of them. Now, I am seeing desktop.ini files, even when the 'Hide Protected OS Files' is checked, they are still in all my music folders. How to make them part of the operating system? http://www.youtube.com/judenihalmusic