Windows 10: The contents of my pictures folder was deleted. How can I restore it?

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  1. The contents of my pictures folder was deleted. How can I restore it?


    Last night, I updated my computer before going to bed. This morning, when I signed in, I noticed that my background image was missing. I went to the personalize menu and tried to add a custom background, but there was nothing in that folder. I had made about 5 subfolders and had thousands of files. I did not delete it overnight. I am missing thousands of files. They are not in my recycling bin. What happened to all of my files????

    :)
     
    Raven Black1, Nov 15, 2023
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  2. enso Win User

    Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

    Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

    • I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.


    • 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    That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date.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.
     
  3. Trouble deleting a folder

    Thanks for the suggestion but it says "delete folder failed for E:\....." for each folder I try.

    *Confused The contents of my pictures folder was deleted. How can I restore it? :confused:

    Will I be forever stuck with these unnecessary folders? *Oh Well The contents of my pictures folder was deleted. How can I restore it? :eek:hwell:
     
    oli_ramsay, Nov 15, 2023
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  4. aljaxon Win User

    The contents of my pictures folder was deleted. How can I restore it?

    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?
     
    aljaxon, Nov 15, 2023
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