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Also....If there were bad sectors on the hard drive and items were moved...??

Have you checked for malware, Tony?

That looks interesting, plodr.

What an idiot!

The search everything app works really well. I have it on every computer. Dougie turned me on to it about five years ago. There's even a portable version now.

It might have helped if you ran Recuva or Everything on it.

Hey, remember the USB Killer, a device that looks like a thumb drive and lets you destroy 95% of computers by frying them with a quick jolt of electricity? There’s now an improved version on the market, which is more powerful, looks more like any generic thumb drive, and comes with micro USB, USB-C, and Apple Lightning adapters, allowing you to fry a wider variety of electronics. How do you know whether your device is vulnerable to attacks with a similar computer-frying stick? You don’t. A video compilation shows the new version’s Lightning port destroying an iPhone 7 and at least briefly confusing an iPad Pro. The only way to stop an attack on a vulnerable system is to physically keep anyone from accessing the USB ports, so good luck with that. Hope you don’t know anyone vindictive enough to try this. Ars Technica explains that the USB Killer works by drawing power from the computer or phone like any USB accessory would, storing it in its capacitors until it reaches -220V, then blasting all of that power back into the computer, smartphone, tablet, car entertainment system, or anything else with a compatible port. The USB Killer then repeats the process as many times as it needs to until the device dies. Want to see it in action? Here’s a video compilation of gadget snuff porn, as people try the product in a wide variety of devices. Source: Consumerist

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So far, so good. Thanks, Bob!

I haven't used Skype in months, Dougie. Have you tried reinstalling it?

:wow: I work on a lot of Toshiba laptops and this is the first I have heard of it. Very interesting. Thanks, Pete!

That was an interesting thread.

Facebook just announced several tweaks to the way video will start performing on its service soon. However, in the name of enhancing “customer experience,” Facebook is adding one change that is likely to drive a significant number of users slightly crazy: Not only auto-playing videos, but making sure to do it with sound blaring. That’s part of a slate of announcements Facebook made today. Among them are new apps for “couch side” devices, like your AppleTV and Amazon Fire TV, as well as better display framing for vertical video. But right at the top, Facebook touts that it is about to make your news feed louder. “Videos in News Feed have previously played silently — you tap on a video to hear sound,” Facebook explains. But now, it’s changing its tactic. If your phone volume is on, videos in your Facebook feed will not only play automatically, but will have their sound on. Because everyone loves that so much when news websites and ads do it, right? Sound will also basically doppler in and out as you scroll through your news feed. When you get near one, the sound will fade in, and as you slide on past, it will fade out. If your phone is set to silent, videos will not automatically play with sound, Facebook notes. For what it’s worth, Facebook tells advertisers that in its user testing, 70% of folks who heard sound automatically play by default simply left it on. Luckily, for the other 30% of us, there are options. If you want to be able to keep your phone volume on and not have whatever happens to be in your news feed announce itself to the room you’re in, here’s how you can disable that: On Apple (iOS) devices, you can find the setting under Settings > Account Settings > Sounds, and then use the toggle to disable “Videos in News Feed Start With Sound.” On Android devices, select “App Settings” and then scroll down to the toggle for “Videos in News Feed Start With Sound.” (If you don’t see these options, the update hasn’t yet rolled out to you, but it will.) And for that matter, if you just hate auto-play, or wish that it would stop eating up your phone’s data, you can disable that on Android and iOS, too. Source: Consumerist

I've had that happen to me once and I just assumed that the account information was automatically synced.