Thank you!! My downloads folder was doing this exclusively. Drove me nutters. Deleted, it instantly recreated a couple of files, and wham! My downloads folder instantly refreshed showing my files. Thank you so much! I had a lot of Quick Access folders in my Explorer, after deleting those files they are all gone.
Please update your answer to include the fact that all your links will be gone after this step! I've added a note below the answer. Show 3 more comments. Short version, the Windows Search service and the Windows Index are having issues.
Launch Control Panel and launch Indexing Options. Click the Advanced button and you should see an error saying that there is no index. Charles Coverdale Charles Coverdale 81 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. Rebuilding the index fixed it for me. Fixed it for me. My WSearch service refused to start, but after setting it to DelayedAutoStart , running error checking on my system drive, and restarting, things are back to normal.
My icon cache was also broken, which might be a related symptom. Add a comment. Deleting them from the Quick Access panel did the trick for me. Another thing you can do, especially if you have lots of filetypes Microsoft recognizes in your download folder stuff like jpg, docx, xlsx, etc : Right click on your Downloads folder and choose Properties.
Repeat for your Documents folder. Jones O. Jones 5 5 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. Worked for me, windows 10 pro — Buchannon. Now open the folder from the taskbar. Unfortunately this doesn't work when Explorer is "Working on it Pressing the Clear button on Folder Options is what finally fixed it for me.
You can access this dialog only when you have a working explorer. So if your explorer already doesn't start normally, you have to trick it into opening some other folder on your disk, then immediately go the this dialog. Kadju Kadju 41 1 1 bronze badge. Worked for me. My case was a secondary non-OS D: drive that was full of video files.
It was optimized for "Videos" and I changed it to "General Items" and that fixed it. Sidenote: I tried the above changes and those did not work so this might be the best case for non-primary drives. Thanks Kadju! Jim Henley Jim Henley 11 2 2 bronze badges. Opening the second window works for me, but re-indexing does not Jasker Jasker 1. Are you saying this is the only problem that can cause the symptoms described, or is this just something to try?
If it's just something to try, it isn't an answer ans should be a comment. I've simply disabled the recent files -part. Nichlas H. Make sure this is successful before going to the next step. Enter dir to see the files in the current directory. Don't go on to the next step until you are sure you are in the right place and don't mind losing these files. Select that drop-down to see the available options. Step 4: Out of that list, select the General items option.
Click Apply or OK to save those changes and voila! You should now hopefully be able to open the desired folder s without any of the prolonged waiting time that you were previously experiencing. Subscribe to our RSS Feed! Run the software. Click "Optimization" on the left panel, and then choose "File Showing". Go to "Choose drive" and select the drive with a file system error. Check the "Check and fix file system error" option and click "Execute".
Step 4. After that, click the "here" to view the result. After this, you can try to open the Downloads folder to get all the saved data and files now. If it's still inaccessible, don't worry. Just try the 2 methods below to get all save data back now:. If you don't see wanted files in the Downloads folder, don't worry. The professional file recovery software will help. If you lost files in Downloads folder, move your mouse on "Select Folder" and click "Browse".
If the whole Downloads folder is missing, select C: drive the default location of the Downloads folder and click "OK" to scan and find your lost Downloads folder. Go to " Customize", and select documents from the drop-down folder;. After this, you can check to see whether your files show up in the Downloads folder or not. If you don't see downloaded files or data, you can also select General items, Pictures, Music or Videos, etc to make wanted files show up in the Downloads folder.
If you don't have any important data saved in the Downloads folder and you need a straightforward solution to get this issue fixed, System Restore will do. Here are the detailed steps that you can follow to run System Restore and repair not working or inaccessible Downloads folder back to work again now:.
Type: system restore in the Search box in Windows 10 and select Create a restore point;. Step 5.
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