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I have downloaded a movie from the internet in Ubuntu using deluge and then saved a copy of that movie in windows drive. The copy seemed perfect from Ubuntu. But strangely, when I logged into Windows I was stunned to see that the file was no more.

Can anyone tell me what's wrong? How to solve the problem? The same problem happened for some other files two.

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The partition we are talking about is formatted to NTFS? No encryption is applied to this partition? – Cumulus007 Jul 17 '12 at 5:43
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Through Ubuntu , Confirm they are stored in Windows partition , and not in Ubuntu Downloads folder. Windows cannot access the ext4 partition out-of-the-box. – tijybba Jul 17 '12 at 6:29
Are you sure you placed in in the proper windows folder? Windows paths looking from Ubuntu can be a bit confusing. SAy you want to place the file on the desktop you should go to <win drive partition>/Users/<your username>/Desktop. if you have already done something like this then please ignore. – Ashu Jul 17 '12 at 6:40
In addition to the other comments here (moving the file to an easily accessible location) here: 1. If you now try to reopen the file in Ubuntu, is it still there and readable? 2. Is it reproducible? What happens if you try again (you mentioned you placed a copy there), or place a dummy file, e.g. a dummy.txt file there? 3. Did you perhaps give the movie a very long name, or a name with special characters? I know Windows doesn't like that, though I wouldn't expect it to just hide that file then. – Tomas Jul 17 '12 at 7:13

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