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Discus and support Deleted files and data as it was a temporary user profile in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; Windows technical advisor recovered my documents and files. All on my desktop. I had lost access to them as i was logged into a temporary user profile.... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by BrendaSmith70, Oct 17, 2019.

  1. Deleted files and data as it was a temporary user profile


    Windows technical advisor recovered my documents and files. All on my desktop. I had lost access to them as i was logged into a temporary user profile. Anyways i have take computer to a shop, the guy checked whole hard drive, nothing is there. He thinks the advisor cut all existing files but placed them on a tempoary user profile which automatically deleted and lost it all when laptop got switched.

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    BrendaSmith70, Oct 17, 2019
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  2. WalterH Win User

    Can I delete temporary User Profiles and folders from Users directory?

    I am trying to determine whether I can delete TEMP User Profiles. One of my Win 10 Pro machines was updated to Version 1903 last night. After rebooting and trying to log in, I received the message "The User Profile Service service failed the sign-in." I was about the try repairing the registry but decided to just do several reboots. For some reason, this fixed the sign-in issue. However, now I notice that four temporary User Profiles were created, all starting with TEMP.

    Deleted files and data as it was a temporary user profile [​IMG]

    Looking at the registry entries in ProfileList, I see the entry ending in 1001 (which is for user haisler) and the one ending in 1003 (which is for user adminwh), and these look OK and work OK for sign-in. So my sign-in problem is fixed. None of the entries in the ProfileList are connected to the TEMP user profiles.

    Deleted files and data as it was a temporary user profile [​IMG]

    Looking at folders/files stored for the User profiles starting with TEMP (like Desktop, Documents, etc), I don't see any files there the are connected to the main user (haisler).

    So Questions: Is it safe to delete the four folders starting with TEMP in the Users directory? Is there any other step that needs to be taken to delete these four User Profiles and associated files?
     
    WalterH, Oct 17, 2019
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  3. Fix You've been signed in with a temporary profile in Windows 10  


    I came home today and had to log in to my desktop. When I did it said it was preparing Windows and I was taken to the temporary profile. I followed the tutorial to delete the profile folder path (step 9). At some point in the process, I confirmed that I could see my old files in C: \Users\BriggsDesktop. When I restarted, it went through the "We're glad you're here" screens. However it took me back to the desktop that looks just like the temporary profile one. I can no longer find all of my files. I tried doing a restore, but it did not complete successfully. Suggestions?
     
    Justinbriggs, Oct 17, 2019
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  4. Deleted files and data as it was a temporary user profile

    PC switched me to a temporary user profile


    Thanks for the welcome! I am able to get to the corrupted file, but when following through with the steps to delete or rename the file, the error message occurs. The only thing I haven't tried doing is a system restore. I really don't want to do that because it will delete a lot of apps and security that I spent hours downloading into my pc.
     
    buonafortuna, Oct 17, 2019
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