Windows 10: HOW do I get my pictures back? My Pictures in Windows Pictures file folder gone today.

How do I get my pictures back? They were in the Pictures Folder yesterday and when I looked today they were all gone. Apparently the picture folder was in One Drive despite my efforts to keep it on the computer. Also how do I stop one drive from moving my files around without my asking? Is there a way of safely and permanently removing One Drive??

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That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date.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

 

HOW do I get my pictures back? My Pictures in Windows Pictures file folder gone today.

You are welcome.

I was assuming. I believed that's the case based on this part you wrote "They were in the Pictures Folder yesterday and when I looked today they were all gone. Apparently the picture folder was in One Drive"

You did confirm that they are in OneDrive when you go to www.onedrive.com, right? If so, the above steps would work.

 

HOW do I get my pictures back? My Pictures in Windows Pictures file folder gone today.

How do I get my pictures back? They were in the Pictures Folder yesterday and when I looked today they were all gone. Apparently the picture folder was in One Drive despite my efforts to keep it on the computer. Also how do I stop one drive from moving my files around without my asking? Is there a way of safely and permanently removing One Drive??