Windows 10: My desktop has suddenly become a copy of my other computer's desktop. I went to delete...

I store files on my desktop when I'm working on them, or if I need quick access to them, and allow OneDrive to back up my desktop for me. I got a new computer Surface Pro 7 and thought I had set it up correctly. Suddenly I noticed that I had WAY more files on my desktop than expected, and they all appeared to be put there by OneDrive. I checked, and they're copies of files that are on the desktop of my old computer. I went to delete them off of the new computer, and OneDrive asked if I wanted to remove them from OneDrive as well, or restore them. I selected remove, and now they don't exist on my old computer, either.


This is not at all how I expect my computer to act. Cloud files are cloud files, local files are local files, and backups are backups. I would never expect local files on one computer to appear on another PC, and I would never expect that I would delete local files on one computer and have them disappear on all computers.


Is there a way that I can still have OneDrive automatically back up my files, but not mix everything up like this? Or do I need to disable my Microsoft account on my new PC and manually back things up to my OneDrive in order to keep things working as expected?


Any advice on how to do whatever needs to be done is appreciated.

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windows 10 deleted my desktop files

Step 1 - I upgraded to Win 10 and lost all my files on Desktop.

Step 2 - Found the files in Network - USers- Desktop

copied all files again to desktop.

Step 3- Restarted my machine again and lost desktop files again.

Step 4 - As suggested did the following as listed below but dont find my files.

• Press “Windows + E”, open This PC/Computer
• Open Local Disc C, open Windows.old
• Click on Users, select your User name
• Go to desktop folder

Cant find my files. Why is Win 10 deleted files again and again from Desktop ?.

 

My desktop suddenly deleted!

Well, I figured it out – sadly it doesn't get my files back, but at least I think I know what happened.

I had Yahoo Messenger installed – it wouldn't work, so I tried to uninstall it, but got a message that the install.log was missing. The fix suggested on various forums was that the file was in fact where it should be, but for some reason unwise.exe couldn't find it.

The suggestion was to copy it to the desktop, then browse to there when it asked for it. I did that. Successfully uninstalled. It was shortly after this that I noticed my desktop to be missing.

I surmise, however, that the unwise (what an appropriate name) process deletes whichever folder the install.log is located in! Unfortunately, this deletion is permanent and non-recoverable.

Be careful what you read on forums…

 

favourites to desktop

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

As per the description, I understand that you are facing some issues with Windows.

I would suggest you to try the steps given below.

• Copy the URL from the favorites.
• Paste it on the desktop.
• Then double click on the URL the website will open.
• You can also drag and drop the URL from the favorite to desktop and double click to open.

Hope this information helps. Please let us know if you need any other assistance with Windows in future. We will be happy to assist you.