Comments on: Disk Cleanup Tool & Storage Sense now offer to clear Downloads folder https://www.thewindowsclub.com/disk-cleanup-storage-sense-downloads-folder TheWindowsClub covers authentic Windows 11, Windows 10 tips, tutorials, how-to's, features, freeware. Created by Anand Khanse, MVP. Fri, 26 May 2023 21:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: LiquidChaos https://www.thewindowsclub.com/disk-cleanup-storage-sense-downloads-folder#comment-66152 Sat, 22 Dec 2018 02:58:00 +0000 https://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=162569#comment-66152 In reply to fc.

Same boat, just lost over 280,000 pictures I was archiving. 2 months of work, no backup, and every single one of them I tried to restore are listed as corrupted. Probably the stupidest things Microsoft has ever done. Everywhere I read says it is unchecked by default. Mine was not. I had to manually uncheck it.

]]> By: Anand Khanse https://www.thewindowsclub.com/disk-cleanup-storage-sense-downloads-folder#comment-66142 Fri, 21 Dec 2018 13:58:00 +0000 https://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=162569#comment-66142 In reply to fc.

If you do not see them in your Recycle Bin, you have lost them now, unfortunately.

]]> By: fc https://www.thewindowsclub.com/disk-cleanup-storage-sense-downloads-folder#comment-66141 Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:53:00 +0000 https://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=162569#comment-66141 I accidentally did a Disk Clean-up and left the “Downloaded files” box checked without realising… Is there a way to get all those files back? I tried with some data recovery programs but they only recover a fraction of the files, and they are in a damaged state so that they cannot be opened :(

It’s pretty bad that Windows introduces a feature like this and they don’t even have a warning box when using it for the first time!

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