First, I did and nothing was helpful. Thus a new thread for a new development.

Second, obviously a password protection would do this but that is not a problem here. This is a new development with the same software.

No compressed files. Same as it was when it all worked correctly.

I never thought it was malware, simply that avast is not reading the files that were previously read with no problem. Again, password protection is not an issue.

And yes I hope that avast will look into this new issue–thus the post.