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If you still have not found your files, look for a Windows.old folder on your C Drive, expand that to open the users folder contained inside - check there for your files, icons. and see if your files are thereĬreate a new user profile with Admin privilegesĬopy all your data from the old profile to the new profile (Documents Library, Pictures Library. Open those folders and check inside Pictures, Documents. ĭo you see two user folders that look like yours?
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Restart (not shut down) your PC 3 or 4 times, this will fix this issue a lot of the time. īefore you do anything or move any files around Hi Dave, most likely you are logged into a temporary account.
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Thoroughly research any product advertised on the site before you decide to download and install it. Watch out for ads on the site that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). The page appears to be providing accurate, safe information. This advice is in my personal capacity as a volunteer.ĭisclaimer 2 - This is a non-Microsoft website.
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Will be glad to help you.ĭisclaimer 1 - Using Third Party Software is completely at your own risk. If this is not in Recycle bin, you can try free version of Recuva to recover the files (note - it is not always successful, hence you require some luck also)ĭo let me know if you require any further help on this. If a file is deleted in Windows 10, it goes into Recycle bin.Ĭan you look into Recycle bin and see whether the files are there or not? If yes, restore from there. Login to your Onedrive and see if your files are there.Ĭ. Now, you should traverse the folders appropriately to find your files.ī. These folders will be hidden, so you need to make it visible by opening File Explorer > View tab > Check Hidden Items > Restart your File Explorer. Go to C:\Windows.Old folder and look for your files here. However sometimes you may have found that your desktop files and folders disappeared from Windows 10/11 Or you are not able to find your personal files, installed programs or documents, pictures, videos, games, etc. Get into this folder and see whether your files are there.Ģ. Windows 10/11 has become extremely popular since its release. Go to C\Users and see if you are some other User who matches your user name. You should look for your old files in following foldersġ. I am here to work with you on this problem.Ī.
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I wish everyone who is going through this good luck, hopefully a new patch will be out sooner rather than later.I am Vijay, an Independent Advisor. I have not tested nor installed this latest one yet but based on all that I am hearing and reading, I guess it's safe to say that I wait for the fix that they will inevitably push out to fix this one. I'm an MCSA Systems Admin so this is just a habit that I have incorporated into my personal environment after many years of MS disasters at work. Fortunately I have a test machine for all MS updates at home so I always test updates before pushing them out to my personal PC's and laptops.
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I just found out that at my old job, over 200 machines had the same thing happen with this latest update (KB5000802 (OS Builds 19041.82.867)) and a friend of mine called me today freaking out that the same thing happened to him when he ran the update yesterday. So it appears that MS strikes again with another bad update. I posted this on an older post so I'm just re-sharing again: _ Power to the Developer! MSI GV72 - 17.3", i7-8750H (Hex Core), 32GB DDR4, 4GB GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, 256GB NVMe M2, 2TB HDD I am just a user like you, so, please don't shoot the messenger The only hope you have is to try another 3rd party recovery utility to see if it can find and recover your files, and it is very important to not recover your files to the same drive, because you may overwrite other files you are trying to recover. Then, when you restarted your PC, your original profile was restored, and the temporary profile, along with all your files were deleted You found your files and copied them into the Temporary profile However, the sequence of events on your PC were as follows:Īfter the update, you were logged into the Temporary profile The general fix is, to restart the PC 4 times and your user profile is restored Sometimes, your user profile is not restored when the PC Restarts at the end of the update, and you are then logged into a temporary profile and it looks like all your data is gone, that is the known bug There is a known bug in Windows 10 updates, what happens during an update is, your user profile is set aside and a temp profile is used for the update, then when your PC restarts at the end of the update, your user profile is restored I am Dave, an Independent Advisor, I will help you with this.