Windows XP: GNU find.exe moved my files and now they're lost

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Published on 2013-06-28T01:58:05Z Indexed on 2013/06/28 4:23 UTC
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I used a series of GNU find.exe commands to move media files to the current folder. Explorer show that the folders and files still exist in their original location but properties show zero size and files. I performed a chkdisk and that didnt help. Any ideas how to recover these files?

Here are the commands from my bat file.

find.exe . -mindepth 1 -name "*.mkv" -type d -exec mv {} {}.tmp ;
find.exe . -mindepth 2 -type f -exec mv {} . ;
find.exe . -mindepth 1 -type d -exec rmdir {} ;

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