My windows 10 downloads folder closes

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I accidentally got it deleted, and yesterday I was trying to download a movie online. But after downloading, I could not access the Downloads folder to find the downloaded program.

So how can I restore the deleted Downloads folder? Help me please. I was trying to clean up the Downloads folder to leave more available useful space on my PC with faster running speed. It's missing. Do you know how to fix this issue? Windows Downloads folder is a default folder which is used to save downloaded stuff. You can access most downloaded files and data in the Downloads folder. The IT department has run the same solution suggestions and there have not been any changes.

The Link EckiS had provided in response to my post is a good discussion of the issue. I finally did get my IT department to change the Group Policy Updates for the drive maps from "Replace" to "Update" or "Refresh" and that has solved the issue on my Windows 10 computer.

So I read about this problem and found the group policy solution. The "solution" above is no help because this is occurring on my home-office desktop. I am NOT connected to or trying to access any files on a network. I've tried rebooting, and shutting down my computer, but the problem persists. I have the same problem, seem it is the problem of Win I have working with 2 companies and also have these problem while win7 PC has not this problem.

Further, users are using network drives, and even user open one network driver folder, it will close the folder automatically. I have the same problem, the explorer close on some PC on Windows It's make only this with the computers on Windows 10 and Windows Server I will try to change the drive maps Refresh and come back to say you if it change something.

Sorry if m'y English is bad. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Asked by:. Archived Forums. Windows 10 General. Sign in to vote. I am having trouble with my File Explorer randomly closing on it own.

I'm in these files all day long and it is easiest to leave File Explorer open as I'm accessing various files. Several times a day File Explorer will randomly close and I will have to browse through our network structure to get back to the folder that I'm working in.

To make matters worse, every time this happens it causes problems with files I have open PDF pages go blank and I then have to close the files and re-open everything. This has been happening up to 20 times a day and doesn't matter which folder on the network I'm in or which files I have open.

How can I keep File Explorer from doing this? Tuesday, January 29, PM. Hi, Thanks for your post in our forum. Firstly, did it only happen on those shared folders? Or also the local folder? Hope above information can help you.

Thanks again for your understanding and support. Best Regards, Otto Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help.

Proposed as answer by otto wang Thursday, January 31, AM. Wednesday, January 30, AM. Arya 0. If you will work with me I will be here to help until the issue is resolved. Several others found that Disk Cleanup was set to run for Automatic Maintenance or to clean up windows.

Can you check that now? If you want to report this to Microsoft use the Feedback Hub app in Start Menu where developers are tasked to process consumer feedback. They will not even see it here.

This is a tech forums staffed mostly by volunteers trying to help others with your problems. If you want to post back a Share link from your Feedback here others who see this thread can vote it up and add to it. Let me know what you find. Does disk clean up run on it's own? Because I never set it up to run on it's own. I also checked in the disk cleanup and my downloads folder was unchecked.

Is there anyway to see a log of all the files that have been deleted on my PC? The problems started after I decided to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and keep all my files. Could the 4 files left in downloads folder after all the other ones were deleted, were cleaned up by these files. Are you running BootCamp on a Mac? The reason I ask is that those folders appear to be for Yosemite and Sierra which are Apple versions, and Redstone which is a Windows 10 version.

So perhaps an Upgrade you did in Bootcamp or an attempt to install that replaced your Downloads with those folders. However I have to tell you that I've seen almost everything in forums daily over 10 years time, and I have not seen this before. The only way I know that WIndows could single out your Downloads folder for deletion is if Storage Sense is preset for this, then run during automatic maintenance.

IF Disk Cleanup also had Downloads preset to delete which you said yours did not then it's possible it could have done this. Whatever it is is something very odd, and looks like it's related to a Version Update or Bootcamp since it left those folders in your downloads. I just ran Avast anti-virus and got some errors here's what I got.

I don't think a file can delete files in a directory. As I said before, there is only two ways I know that this can happen and it seems they were eliminated.