Have you updated your Windows 10, but having some troubleshoot with disappeared folders and files now? People usually get annoyed when they lost their important documents, files, folders, etc. not all people are so intelligent to save the items as backups so retrieved when needed. If you become a victim of the folder disappearing or deletion, do not be panic because some practical solutions help you to get back all the necessary items.

1Show Hidden Folders and Files

Double-click a specific quarantined message to view details about it, and take actions. If the message wasn't actually spam, you can release it (have it sent to your mailbox) and report it as not junk to the Microsoft Spam Analysis Team. Or you can select one or more messages, and then choose an action from the Actions drop-down list. The file is still definatly in the C:quarantine folder as a.bup file and the manager is set to delete after 28 days is there a way i can uncompress the file back to its original cab file state or is it that the virus scaner just renames the file and changes the extension to.bup. If so can i just rename it back to a.cab file and restore it from that point.

The second solution to get back your all disappeared folders on Windows 10 is to check for hidden folders. Sometimes, the folders seem missing to us in our laptop or PC are hidden somewhere. To show hidden folders and files, follow up the following steps.

• 1. Open “This PC”.

• 2. Click “File” tab at the top left corner, then choose “Change folder and search options” from the list.

• 3. Then choose “View” tab and check “Show hidden files, folders and drives”.

• 4. After that click on “Apply” and save the changes to get back the files.

2Check User Account

In solution 3, one check for whether his user’s account is changed or not. Sometimes, when you upgraded your windows to windows 10, it creates a new user account for your computer. So do not worry because your old account is still present, but it is not working as your default user account. To make this new account as your default user account follow these steps.

• 1. Click on “Start” button in the menu and type the user icon.

• 2. Then click “Sign out”.

• 3. On the sign in windows, type in your old account.

• 4. After switching, one can get back all files and folders instantly.

3Check Temp Folder

Now it’s time to try solution number 4, which is checking for the App data temp folder. There is a folder in a computer named as App data folder where files sometimes disappeared.

To recovers folders and files, the first step is to go on 'C: UsersUsernameAppDataLocalTemp' folder. Users also complain that most of the times disappeared records are found this folder. However, one has to perform some manual steps to retrieve data.

4Check if Drive Index is Corrupted

Have you ever checked your hard drive on windows 10 to look for what is troubleshooting? You have any idea that maybe your hard drive index is corrupted which unable the files to show up in a folder. Here is how one can fix up the hard drive and get all the files and folders back into the system.

• 1. Open “This PC” and try to locate your hard drive.

• 2. After finding, right click on it and choose the “Properties” option.

• 3. The next is to select the “Tools” tab and pressing the “Check” button.

4. Click “Scan drive”, you will see that your hard drive will start scanning for possible errors.

5. After scanning, some hidden files and folders will be restored.

5Change Indexing Options

Another solution is to change the index option on your computer if your files disappear and not showing. This is a practical solution and maybe work effectively in your case. To change the index option, you have to follow the below mentioned steps.

• 1. Press “windows key + S” to open up the search bar.

• 2. Then type “Indexing options” in the search bar and select it by clicking.

• 3. When the windows get open, click on the “Advanced” option.

• 4. In advanced option windows, open the index setting tab.

• 5. We will see the troubleshooting tab there with the rebuild button. Click on the “Rebuild” button, and the problem will be solved.

6Ultimate Way to Recover Disappeared Folders

If you have tried all methods above and still cannot recover disappeared folders, then AnyRecover is the perfect recovery tool to choose. It is the most trustable platform where people can find a practical solution for their problems related to hidden folders and files. AnyRecover does not just serve the common person, but businesses can also use their services to get back their important folders.

• AnyRecover data recovery software is easy and quick to use in retrieving folders. There is no need to hire some professional services to use it.

• The special feature of AnyRecover is that it supports 1000+ formats of files to recover. Whether your data includes docx, doc, zip, Jpeg, PNG, MP4, mp3, 7-zip, HTML, GIF and more you can retrieve everything from AnyRecover.

• No matter what your data is lost from external hard drives, from mobiles, USB, computer, or from any other storage devices, AnyRecover will restore data from it.

• It supports virtual drivers as well like VMDK, IMG, VHD, OVA, XVA and more.

• The best thing about AnyRecover is that one can use it freely first so if he likes it then buy the full version.

Easy steps to recover data using AnyRecover:

Step 1. Run AnyRecover, choose the “Recycle Bin” option.

Quarantined Files Location Windows 10

Step 2. After selecting the location you want to recover lost data, press “Start” button to run scanning process.

Step 3. It will list all lost files and folders. Preview all the files and folders and select the important ones and click “Recover” to get them back.

Despite of having a rogue start, Windows Defender has gotten better and nowadays it is almost all you need to keep your Windows PC virus free. Even so sometime it underperform and sometime it overperform and flag some files as suspicious and quarantine them If the software you are trying to run is unsigned.

If you are downloading lot of indie games, specially those Alpha/beta release from Indiegogo/Patreon, sometime Windows defender reports them as virus. When it does that, certain files from that package get locked up and your game will not work properly even if it runs. This mainly happens because lot of indie developers do not digitally sign their softwares resulting Windows Definder to be suspecious on said game files. In this case, you have to recover the deleted files from Windows Security Center.

Here is how you can do it.

Find Quarantine Files In Computer

Go to Windows Security App. Simply go to start menu and type security and click on this app.

Malwarebytes Delete Quarantined Files

Now Click on Threat history.

As you can see I dont have anything there so I have downloaded below image from internet to demonstrate what it looks like when you have quarantined files there. You have to click on the arrow facing down at the right side and then click on See Details. By looking at the path of the file, you can confirm that this is the missing file from your game package and not some other file. Then you have to press Restore button to get the file back to where it belongs.

Quarantine Files List

Thanks for reading. Hope this short guide will help you to fix game problems occurs due to Windows defender deleting false positive files. Let us know in comment section if you are having trouble following this tutorial.