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Example: Folders visible on flash drive, but no files

Over decade old. I'm sure OP doesn't care anymore, will not answer anymore etc.. what's the use of the community bot 'modifying' the topic?

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    Right, thank you. As a follow-up question, it would be perfectly acceptable for me to answer it then, correct?
    – user705502
    Commented Jan 20, 2023 at 12:09
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    If you wish....
    – DavidPostill Mod
    Commented Jan 20, 2023 at 12:09
  • Well I am trying to determine if it's allowed and considered useful. I wish to contribute. I just see a question I think I have a useful answer to, notice it's old, yet 'bumped' for some reason.
    – user705502
    Commented Jan 20, 2023 at 12:16
  • It's odd when it's something you answered yourself years ago, then over a couple of days you get seemingly random upvotes.. took me ages to figure out how it was happening, because I never look at the questions by 'Active' only ever by 'Newest'.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Jan 21, 2023 at 16:28

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The community bot keeps reviving over decade old topics because sometimes the question has either no answers or doesn't have answer that was accepted by the original poster.

You can safely answer old questions. If you have a good answer, it will get upvoted. And if the user who posed the answer is still active, they might check it off as the answer. That is the whole reason old posts get recycled: To get new eyeballs looking at them.

And the other side to this is if the question simply bad, it gets a new set of eyes on it to potentially edit it and clean it up or just flag it to be closed and deleted. Remember, this is a community and bringing up old questions actually helps with the whole collaborative moderation aspect of this place.

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