Windows 7: Backed-up "My Documents" folder has been designated a tiny system file on the backup media

[Jacob L Salomon]

Hi Folks.I recently was forced to recover from a month-old backup because my Windows-7 laptop would not boot properly. So, before recovering from the backup, I booted from a Linux-Mint DVD and backed up many active folders to a USB drive. Most of them came through without a hitch and I will be able to recover recent files. However, the most important folder, "My Documents", with bank statements and resumes, appears as a 104-byte system file. That's NUTS! Because after I backed it up to that USB drive, I checked some sub-directories for the important files and found them OK! So what happe

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