Accidently deleted attributes of all files and folder inside my user home directory. Is my current fix enough? Security threat?

[seawee5]

My Big MistakeIt all began when I wanted to use PowerShell to set the attribute of some personal folders matching a specific regex to "Hidden". (For my defense of what follows: I was way overslept! I didn't even use the regex to begin with...)I quickly found the following suggestion on a forum here, which I blindly executed ('.' here is my user directory)Get-ChildItem -path "." -Recurse -Force | ForEach-Object { $_.Attributes += "Hidden" } I noticed afterwards that this was just a troll, and all my files where hidden...Well, I then tried to quickly fix it viaGet-ChildItem -path "." -Recurse

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