file folder corrupted all contents missing

You cannot see the files either. But I know they are there.

Is the folder encrypted ?

Is the folder encrypted ? And also add screenshot so exact situation could be understood thanks.

No encrytion. Just stored on an adjacent portable seagate harddrive, and used for watching videos.

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File indicates it has no content.
But I dropped a new video in to see if this is true and it was the same as one in there and it asked me if I wanted to replace the existing video in the file..
I put replace. While I had the video freshly in it showed. I played it to see if it would work which it did when I closed the file and reopened, the file disappeared again.

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> No encrytion. Just stored on an adjacent portable seagate harddrive, and used for watching videos.
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Did you have other important files in the folder, which are now missing, and which were not backed up? Or is this just about that one file?

If the former situation pertains, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery.

about 25 digital full movies for psp and various tv episodes, some music files

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> Did you have other important files in the folder, which are now missing,
> and which were not backed up? Or is this just about that one file?
>
> If the former situation pertains, see
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery.
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It's possible that they somehow got deleted. Recovering deleted files, especially if they are large files, and especially if you have written extensively to the same volume since they were lost, can be difficult and time consuming and is not always successful (or sometimes you recover part of, but not all of, a big file). Unless you have to pay a lot of money to replace the lost files, I'd recommend not bothering with the procedures at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery. If worse comes to worse, you should be able to obtain them again, however you did before.

Assuming you are deciding to (further) risk any deleted files being unrecoverable, please read on...

Please open a Terminal window (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run

ls -al '$FOLDERNAME'

where $FOLDERNAME is replaced in full by the full path name, starting with /, of the folder that appears empty. Remember that this name will be enclosed in single quotes. Please note also that the character appearing immediately after -a is a lower-case L, not an upper-case i. Then select all the text in the Terminal (Edit > Select All), copy it to the clipboard (Edit > Copy), and paste it here.

If you don't know what the full path name of the folder is, then as vishal Ithape, please provide a screenshot showing the folder window. Launchpad Answers doesn't support attachments, so you'll have to put it on the web (you could use a site like http://postimage.org) and post a link to it.

I fixed it with a check disk utility through Windows Vista. I will never use my extended hard drive with an ubuntu OS again.
THANKS for your work. The utility simply isolated the corrupted file that was causing all of the file folder not to open. It was an input output error. I recovered all but two files. Thank you for your effort. If nothing else I learned two or three processes of trouble shooting. It was a mixture of two operating systems, but at least I learned that. I tried using the Disk Utility that ubuntu has, but it wouldn't allow me to repair it. It said the hard drive was still running when in fact the file wasn't. A word of advice, be careful transferring files directly from a Windows based operating system to another hard drive using an ubuntu system as the go between.

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> Your question #159491 on nautilus in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+question/159491
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> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Eliah Kagan requested more information:
> It's possible that they somehow got deleted. Recovering deleted files,
> especially if they are large files, and especially if you have written
> extensively to the same volume since they were lost, can be difficult
> and time consuming and is not always successful (or sometimes you
> recover part of, but not all of, a big file). Unless you have to pay a
> lot of money to replace the lost files, I'd recommend not bothering with
> the procedures at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery. If
> worse comes to worse, you should be able to obtain them again, however
> you did before.
>
> Assuming you are deciding to (further) risk any deleted files being
> unrecoverable, please read on...
>
> Please open a Terminal window (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run
>
> ls -al '$FOLDERNAME'
>
> where $FOLDERNAME is replaced in full by the full path name, starting
> with /, of the folder that appears empty. Remember that this name will
> be enclosed in single quotes. Please note also that the character
> appearing immediately after -a is a lower-case L, not an upper-case i.
> Then select all the text in the Terminal (Edit > Select All), copy it to
> the clipboard (Edit > Copy), and paste it here.
>
> If you don't know what the full path name of the folder is, then as
> vishal Ithape, please provide a screenshot showing the folder window.
> Launchpad Answers doesn't support attachments, so you'll have to put it
> on the web (you could use a site like http://postimage.org) and post a
> link to it.
>
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Thanks Eliah Kagan, that solved my question.