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"Florent Heidet" <flox17@hotmail.com> wrote in message <gd5f0m$okr$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> I installed the 32bits version of Matlab so the instal directory is: C:\program files(x86)\MATLAB\
> 
> I verified the correspondance of the paths...everything is fine.
> 
> I did a search of my files, and they were found nowhere on the computer!!
> However if I copy MATLAB files (eg. downloaded from Internet) in my work directory, when I am runing MATLAB, I see the new files (from Internet) and the old files (I created with MATLAB) in the same directory, but if I use the explorer, I see only the Internet files!
> 
> More funny: if I put manually in my work directory files with same name than the files I created within Matlab, then I can open the file I just copied, and when I am removing it, I can open the former file with the same name!!
> It is like if there were a "gost directory" used to store files made by "my" Matlab, and a directory with the same name where I can copy files...
> 
> Any idea...?

Can you copy out the files from the current directory window of matlab? paste them to the desktop or somewhere else known. Does that work?