Windows 10: My pictures and documenmts are missing./ My desk top picture is gone along with my lockm...

Usually you can find previous uses pictures on the picture choice page and they are not there.

No picture files and no document files and no downloads. Mu screen login is different and I did not make changes.

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Unable to Locate Pictures and Desk-top Icons after the Windows 10 'Upgrade'

After the Windows 10 update performed a lobotomy on my desk-top computer, I cannot find the thousands of pictures on my hard-drive when I click on "Pictures" on "This PC". How can I recover them? Also, there were dozens of documents on my desk-top before
the lobotomy- they are now gone. How do I recover them and replace them on my desk-top? Please help! Thank you!

 

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That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date.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

 

Picture files gone missing

Hi,

One potential reason why your picture files went missing is due to a system file corruption. Let's analyze some details to address this accordingly. Please answer the following questions:

• Do you remember making any hardware or software changes on your device before this issue occurred?
• Do you have other user accounts added on the PC? If yes, reproduce the issue by verifying if you encounter the same thing using another profile.
• What procedures have you done so far to rectify the issue?

Meanwhile, we suggest using the File History to locate and restore these pictures. This tool automatically backs up versions of your files that can aid in restoring your lost data. See this article: File
History in Windows for the procedures. The steps on the link hold the same in Windows 10.

We will be waiting for your reply so we can move forward to resolving your concern.