Windows 10: All music, pictures and documents have disappeared after Windows 10 upgrade

Hi


I seem to have lost all my files after what appears to have been an automatic update.


I have attempted to revert to an older version of windows, however, it is claimed that it was installed on 2020/11/14 which is over the 10 day limited; and yet all my programs and data and desktop only disappeared now, when attempting to start up my laptop.


What do I do?

:)

 

What exactly are are "My music", "My Pictures" and "My videos"

You can't redirect the shortcut links which is the subject of the post

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.

 

Will Documents, Music & Pictures be included in the upgrade?

I am wondering if my documents, my music & pictures will be automatically saved when I upgrade to Windows 10?