Windows 10: Changes made in the desktop folder doesn't change on the desktop.

Hi! I'll describe my problem with an example. Let's say I'm moving a file to the desktop (the folder in Windows Explorer). When I then check the desktop, the file isn't there. My problem is that changes that are either made to the desktop or the desktop folder doesn't apply to the other one, so the desktop folder and the desktop itself looks different. How can I fix this?

Sorry for the confusing explanation :/

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Destkop File Location

After a windows update my documents, pictures, music, video and desktop folders paths were all reset to there default locations. I have multiple drives in my pc so I changed the path of the pictures,music, documents and video folder to my D drive. But when
I changed the path of my Desktop folder I made a mistake. I changed it to C/users/public/public desktop. But now I am unable to revert the change. It denies me access and when you right click on the desktop icon and go to desktop and then the location tab,
it won't show the options to revert, change or target.

Hopefully you guys could help me.

 

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Windows continues to move around folders on the desktop, sometimes hiding them all together (in the desktop main folder).

In most instances, no changes (additions or deletions) have been made to the folder that got moved.

Sure would like this to stop.

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There are multiple Desktop folder under the C:\User\Usernames folder. If you place a file in another users username Desktop folder you are right it won't show up in your Username Desktop folder.

You can also put it in the "C:\Users\Public\Public Desktop" folder and it will show up for every user.

 

right click on that icon in windows explorer and choose properties ,and choose location to see where it located , mine c:\users\home, home being the name I chose when creating the user

 

Do the files appear correctly after you press F5?

There have been issues reported with this but no real solution I'm afraid. Clean install worked for me but that was perhaps a coincidence.

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No, they dont :/ I "fixed it" by dragging the icons from the desktop to the folder and the desktop updated. It's shame that I need to do it. Oh well, that's the closest to a fix I can get to. Thanks for the responses!

 

OK, Now you have me confused. How did you move the icons from the desktop to the folder if they didn't show on the desktop?

 

I had some icons on the desktop that didn't appear in the desktop folder so I dragged those icons from the desktop to the folder. There's "two" sides of this problem, the first one is that a file is on the desktop but not in the folder and the second one is that a file is in the desktop folder but not on the desktop. Either way this thread can be closed since I found a way to deal with it. Thanks for the help!

 

great news , you can check off solved on your screen when you go to this thread,