HOW TO VIEW FILES HIDDEN BY VIRUS | MY FILES ARE SHOWING SHORTCUTS

A very upsetting experience this is to all Computer and Smartphone users.

Your device either Flash Drive, USB Thumb Drive, External Hard Disk Drive, Memory Card or other storage media show that it is empty when opened but in my computer or some other explorer software shows that the contents of the device or removable media are intact however they cannot be seen  or used when needed.

Solution is quite easy;

Before you begin make sure you have the device scanned and removed for viruses.



Step 1 
Open an ADMINISTRATOR COMMAND PROMPT  you can achieve this by clicking your start menu and typing CMD in the search located at the bottom of the start menu

When the black coloured icon appears right click it and select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR

Step 2
Note the drive letter of the storage media in question by checking the letter associated with it in MY COMPUTER.

Step 3
In the command prompt type X:  and press enter where X=is the drive letter for your device with the issue

Step 4
The command prompt should look like this now

 X:\> 

Step 5

Simply type or copy the below command, paste and press enter to execute

ATTRIB -R -A -S -H /S /D

Allow a few seconds to execute and all your files should be visible.

Hope this solves your problem

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