Lost contents of Word files after permissions problem

Hi,
For some reason, when I moved a folder from the desktop to a folder in the C
drive I lost access to the folder. I subsequently disabled simple file
sharing and gave full control to my login user which allowed me access to
the folder and all of its contents again. The problem is that the folder is
full of Word files and they all say they have zero bytes in them. They
should each have a lot of content. If I try to open a file I get an error
message saying the path is invalid.When I rebooted the file sizes changed to
the appropriate amounts, but I still get the error message.

When I do a search for one of the files, I can see it only in the proper
folder and no where else on the drive and the search dialog box lists its
size as 64KB or some similar size. I am sure the path is the same as the
files I am having trouble accessing. If I double-click on the file in the
search dialog box I get the same error message indicting the path is
invalid.

Can anyone tell me what has happened and how to access the information they
should contain?

Thanks

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421 "How to take
ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP".

Mark wrote:

> Hi,
> For some reason, when I moved a folder from the desktop to a folder in the C
> drive I lost access to the folder. I subsequently disabled simple file
> sharing and gave full control to my login user which allowed me access to
> the folder and all of its contents again. The problem is that the folder is
> full of Word files and they all say they have zero bytes in them. They
> should each have a lot of content. If I try to open a file I get an error
> message saying the path is invalid.When I rebooted the file sizes changed to
> the appropriate amounts, but I still get the error message.
>
> When I do a search for one of the files, I can see it only in the proper
> folder and no where else on the drive and the search dialog box lists its
> size as 64KB or some similar size. I am sure the path is the same as the
> files I am having trouble accessing. If I double-click on the file in the
> search dialog box I get the same error message indicting the path is
> invalid.
>
> Can anyone tell me what has happened and how to access the information they
> should contain?
>
> Thanks
>
>