Why are my files disappearing?

I having been relinking images and graphics to package an Indesign file. On a couple of the images when I would click on the folder to which the file exsisted, it would just disappear. It is not on just my computer, but on all office computers. Any Ideas?

You are going to provide some more information than that. Nobody here can begin to guess what files you are talking about, where you are experiencing this behavior, when you are experiencing this behavior, what you are doing when the contents disappear .......

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