Windows 10: Update to Windows 10 ver. 1903 Deleted Valuable Folder

After installing this update everytime I tried to log into my user profile I was getting an error, after restarting this was fixed. However, many of my personal user settings had changed (default browser, background picture, windows bar colour ect).

All my applications were still on my desktop but none of my folders were showing. I found all the folders in the desktop folder, they just weren't displaying on the desktop for whatever reason. I dragged one folder from the desktop folder onto the physical desktop so I could use it. It all went well.

Upon returning to my PC today and turning it all, all my user settings have gone back to what they used to be and all my folders are now on my physical desktop. Except the one folder I moved is completely gone from my computer. I see all the files in my frequently accessed folder and file area on my windows file explorer but I can't access any because they're apparently all non-existent. My backups don't go back far enough for what I need.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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C windows installer folder - Delete?

He can do symbolic link redirection and move the files in it to a different location. *Wink
Better try it out in a virtual of first. Just a suggestion.

Like:
First move everything in c:\windows\installer to d:\installercache
Then delete c:\windows\installer folder
Then type this in command mode as admin
mklink /d c:\windows\installer d:\installercache

Removing those installer files is a bad idea. it might prevent you from updating or uninstalling apps.

 

Trouble deleting a folder

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

*Confused

Will I be forever stuck with these unnecessary folders? *Oh Well hwell:

 

I deleted $Windows~.BT folder that was propably Windows 10 files. How to recover?

Hello,

So about two weeks ago I deleted a $Windows~.BT folder (through the cmd). Now I know that was Windows 10 files ready for install.

How can I download it again? I'm sure I need to reinstall some update. But which?

Tintai