App downloads then disappears

Start backing up your computer. My recommendation is a periodic image backup , with daily incremental backups , but the details matter less than doing it. Check the Recycle Bin. If they are, you can quickly and easily restore them. Search for the file s. Try to recall the name of one of the files, and search for it using Windows Search or the Command Prompt.

If the file was moved to a different folder, you might find it there. This may also lead you to understand what happened and locate other files as well. Check File History. Check OneDrive. Try file recovery. Regardless of whether you agree with me or not, you need to protect yourself, and the easiest way is simply to move the files elsewhere once downloaded. Subscribe to Confident Computing!

Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. Download right-click, Save-As Duration: — 4. It may still exist in other tools, however. N assumed it was win I have never had this issue myself. I usually end up having to clear out the Downloads folder myself, so I am not missing anything current that i may have downloaded.

You mention that the option is being removed in a future version. The option to cleanup the downloads folder or to NOT delete the downloads folder? BTW, I did have a subdirectory inside my downloads folder deleted by disk cleanup once. Lesson learned. Another option. This also applies if you are using a download manager. Excellent suggestions. I downloaded the user manual for my new cell phone to the download folder. It was there for less than a week before it was gone. I found it in my setup folder where I keep the installation files for the apps on my computer.

Good to know even if it is thirty five years or so late. Maybe some of them are still on my computer and nobody knows where Microsoft put them.

It will find ,as its name implies, Everything even deleted files. Thanks for your feedback. I apparently have this same problem. Most frustrating! I have checked the suggested community topic above about desktop screen flashing and have tried all available points there with no change. Here is a detail description regarding my situation and things tried:.

I have no other 3rd part apps. Upgrade process went well; no problems. All apps and all programs worked well. I went to community and Dell community or trouble-shooting sites and found several suggestions to load up PowerShell and run this command:. Apps began working again.

I thought all was well. Absolutely nothing tried since has changed the condition. I have repaired then disabled Norton and uninstalled iCloud. Multiple restarts. No results at all. Threats include any threat of suicide, violence, or harm to another. Any content of an adult theme or inappropriate to a community web site. Any image, link, or discussion of nudity. Any behavior that is insulting, rude, vulgar, desecrating, or showing disrespect. Any behavior that appears to violate End user license agreements, including providing product keys or links to pirated software.

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This involved considerable detail but included downloading a PowerShell command file "reinstall-preinstalledAppsxx. This file needed to be unzipped and then run from PowerShell. Jul 30, AM. Question: Q: Apps disappear after download More Less. Communities Get Support.

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