Windows 10: Missing desktop files after Windows update

Hi,
I have a year 2010 Asus PC with Windows 10. After the latest Windows 10 update, a few document files are missing from my desktop. I used file explorer to search for one of the files but could not find the latest version.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!!



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windows 10 deleted my desktop files

Hello Neha,

I had the same problem - after I updated to Window 10, all of my desktop files were gone.

When I found them, I replaced them to my new desktop, but when I restarted my computer, these files were gone and my old, pre-Windows-10 desktop was again my desktop.

I can't find the missing files anywhere, not even in the folder you instructed, and all I could find is shortcuts to the missing files, which path is missing.

Is there any way to recover the missing files?

Thanks a lot,

Ido

 

Windows 10 desktop files missing after update from Windows 7

After updated windows 10 last night this morning I discover that all my files are missing including some of desktop files.

Please help me how to find them.

 

Latest version as in the Anniversary Update? If you upgraded to the latest version of Windows 10, yes anything that was on the desktop can be not in place when you go from one version to the next.

 

Upgrading Windows doesn't delete things from the desktop.

The OP needs to give more information about what is missing. If everything is missing then it is possible they were signed into a temporary account. If only a few documents were missing (as said) then more information on which is needed but it simply isn't true upgrading to 1607 deletes "anything on the desktop".

 

Correct. I upgraded to the Anniversary Update and all the links, folders and files stayed on my user account's desktop.

If the AU has removed them (for reasons unknown) AND it's less than 10 days since the upgrade then they should have been archived in the Windows.old folder in case a roll-back to the previous build is required (Setup keeps old data for the Users folder as well as the Windows one). Windows.old may be a hidden folder, so turn on 'show hidden folders' In File Explorer.

 

As long as the OP can reproduce the missing file names, in whole or in part, a whole-disk search tool like the (free) Voidtools Everything search tool will turn them up (even inside Windows.old, if need be). Highly recommended as a "next step" in resolving this matter. Once the drive is indexed, Everything will find ... wait for it ... everything!
HTH,
--Ed--