Quick question. I had a folder that I used to store videos in. I would add to it constantly, and it always worked fine. Then one day I added two or three smaller videos, and when I went back to open the folder again, it would not open. I would click on it and the little sand timer logo thing would pop up and just stay there for like five minutes- with nothing on the screen ever changing, then finally, it would say "Windows Explorer has stopped working and needs to restart." I ended up deleting the file, and then copying it back after I took some stuff out, and it works fine now. I scanned it with five different anti-spyware and anti-virus programs, and nothing ever showed up. Any ideas on what it might have been?
Folder takes for ever to open
- Thread starter ian88
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I thought it might be that too, that I just had too much in there, but it worked fine while it was up to like 10GB, and then when I put another 250MB or so in it, that's when it starting taking forever to open. Some of the stuff in there I downloaded from LimeWire, so I thought it might be like a virus or adware kind of thing, but I scanned it with almost every anti-virus, anti-spyware, and anti-spam tool that I could get my hands on, and nothing ever showed up throughout the whole machine, much less that file. Anyway, I ended up just deleting the whole thing and copying it back from my external, and it still has most of the same stuff in it, its about 10.2 GB now, and it opens fine. Oh well.