Windows 10: Documents folder not pinning to Quick Access

It's a full clean install of windows 11 done yesterday. Everything is working absolutely fine but I accidently unpinned the documents folder from the quick access menu and I can't seem to be able to pin my most important Documents folder back in the quick access. I always keep it there for quick access. But I can pin every other thing in the quick access. So, the problem is the documents folder and other personal folders like documents, pictures, movies, videos, music etc. Please anyone help me.

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Quick Access bar

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

We would be glad to help you with the issue you are facing today. I understand the difficulty.

Remove items from Quick access.

I would suggest you to follow the below steps.

• Right click on the file or folder.
• Select the option “unpin from the quick access”

To pin items to an item already on the quick access bar.

Follow the below steps.

I would suggest you to create folder in the desktop screen & place all the files or folder which need to pin to the quick access.

• Open the quick access.
• Select the Desktop option.
• Right click on the folder & select the option “pin to quick access”

Hope this helps in resolving the issue. If the issue persists, do get back to us. We will be happy to assist you.



Thank you.

 

Documents folder disappearing from quick access menu in Windows 10

Hello Rachel,



Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community.



Along with the suggestion by KeithM-60601, I suggest you to try the below steps and let us know the status of the issue.

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  Press Windows + E keys on the keyboard to open
  File explorer and select This PC from the left side panel of the window.
  
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  Open the file/folder you want to pin to Quick access.
  
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  Right click on Quick access located on the left side panel of the window.
  
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  Check if the file/folder is pinned to Quick access.
  

Your reply is most important for us to ensure we assist you accordingly.



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Documents not showing up after restore in the Quick Access Folders

Hi AToor

When you restored WIndows, you would have wiped the Quick Access Cache (basically a list of recent items)

It is only when you open those documents again that they will be added to the Quick Access section

A quick way of doing this is if those documents are in a specific folder, right click that folder and choose 'Pin to Quick Access' . . .