hi
last night i copied some data from a friend's usb but after copying the data i came to know that i wasn't able to open those copied folders as they were appearing as application.exe ,then i deleted them and restarted my pc but after rebooting i found that all my folder in my drive E were acting as an application and i wasn't able to access them and it included very importantt documents and some of my memories from childhood in the form of pics but now i can't even open them so please kindly help me asap
p.s. i can still access them by typing " . " in my search bar