Has this ever happened to anyone?

I moved a bunch of mp3 files to a new location.

When I go to the new location, Windows tells me the folder is empty. All of the files are in there but they are... empty.

When I click on them or attempt to drag them into a player, nothing happens.

It's almost as if they have become ghost files. Does anyone know how this happens?

If you shout into them, do they echo?


Anyway, it sounds like the files didnt actually get moved over, but Windows left the file structure just for fun!

Strange: I copied the "hollow files" to a new location and now they are as good as new.

Can anyone explain this?

your folder path is probably to deep, and your flename is tootoo long a name. i've had this happen to me a couple of times.

for example.

C:\Music\Music2\prettylongfoldernamethatkeepsgoingforawhile\LONGASSFILENAMETHATKEEPSONGOINGTILLFOREVERANDEVERANDEVERANDEVER.mp3

that probably won't play. but, when you move it to:

C:\Music\LONGASSFILENAMETHATKEEPSONGOINGTILLFOREVERANDEVERANDEVERANDEVER.mp3

it'll play.

You might be on to something there, cono (at least in my case): the files do have longer than normal names.

i think it only accepts up to 255 characters. i use XP by the way.

or the computer smoked to much and is trippen out mine somtimes does that