Windows desktop folders disappeared

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by MarkV22, Feb 21, 2025.

  1. MarkV22

    MarkV22 Junior Member

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    I had been using the latest Parallels for the last week on a new VM. In the process of setting up the system, I created several folders on the desktop. Some programs I placed on the desktop I found on the Mac desktop too. Because I did not want these to clutter up my Mac desktop, I created folders there and moved those icons to folders. When I booted to Parallels VM, I found that my VM reflected the same change. After a few days, I had about 5 folders created, where some of them had shortcuts to various other items in my VM. Day in and day out, they remained until this morning.
    I booted my Mac and I watched those folders disappear from my desktop. No idea why that happened. After booting the VM, they are not on that desktop either.
    I'm not sure I can live with folders disappearing on me like this.
    The only change I'd made was to create a second virtual hard drive. Maybe this affected my desktop folders. Though I am not sure how.
    Anyone else see a problem like this?
    Anyone else find out why it happened and a solution for this problem?
    I find that behavior very odd indeed.
     
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  2. santoshk3

    santoshk3

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    yes i too face this problem , some time there data visual automatically and some time it disappear from desktop
     
  3. MarkV22

    MarkV22 Junior Member

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    Just as odd, the icons magically reappeared this morning (Monday morning). I have no idea why they disappeared in the first place, nor why a business day later they reappear.
    I did reboot several times the day all the icons disappeared. They did not reappear then. I am curious to know why it happened now.
     

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