Windows 10: For some reason my pictures folder couldn't be opened but after I restored it to it's...

Same as the title

:)

 

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That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date.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.

 

accidently deleted pictures folder but restored folder mising pictures

just one account

right click delete

and then opened recylcle bin and there was my pictures folder

right click restore
folder restored ok but empty

not synced to one drive as im wary of stuff out there for evil hackers to mess with.

for some reason system restore was on but size was at 0 so i had no restore points???

photos were small. not from a camera but some online and from iphone.

i managed to get them all using some software stella data recovery but it would not find me the few jpegs from the pictures folder and instead no matter what i set it to took an age to find them and if i sorted the list by size or date each click resulted in 10 mins sorting.

wonder why windows deletes this way and disables restore?

 

Pictures in Pictures folder will not open

Aloha,

Thanks for the suggestions but I have already done everything listed. Nothing is giving me back access to my pictures. I can enter the files but the pictures will not open.

Mahalo,

Rhonda