W7: Files only visible via "Save As"

[The late XV105]

Thanks BOAC. You're the only one on the track.

Chrome (and IE and Firefox for that matter) are all set up to download to the Downloads folder for the User in question. They manually saved to another folder but in a rush, screwed up.

My question is why files that actually exist do not display.

Try this:

1. Start a web browser
2. Open a web page
3. Click on a picture
4. Make a note of the file name or chose one of your own
5. Right Mouse Button "Save as" and save it to the System32 folder
6. Start Windows Explorer
7. Ensure all attribute to hide any files, system or not, are disabled (i.e. everything is visible)
8. Open the System32 folder
9. Observe that you cannot see the file you just saved
10. Now open a web browser again
11. Click on any photo and press "Save As"
12. Observe that in the "Save As" dialogue you CAN see you previously saved file

Cutting and Pasting to a new location from here (ie in the "Save As" dialogue) results in "The file does not exist. It may have been deleted". Yet you can see it...

Deleting the file (which moves it to the Recycyle Bin), opening the bin, and then cutting and pasting it to a new location works just fine. The file exists.

Explain please.
No lessons about Users; that's not what the post is about.

TVM,
TLXV