Missing pictures in folder

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Published on 2010-09-20T00:06:11Z Indexed on 2011/11/16 1:56 UTC
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I had a folder with some pictures, somehow these pictures are "missing" and I cannot see them anymore.

The strange thing is that if I use the "preview" view in Explorer (the one that shows the tiny icons of the folder contents), the folder preview shows these pictures as if they were inside. Once I enter the folder, they are not there anymore.

I tried showing hidden files and folders, that doesn't help.

Any ideas on how to show or recover those files?

I'm using Windows XP.

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