Help Recovering Docs Created...Where Are they?

[Kbass6319]

As an average user, I had something happen yesterday that I have never ran into before and need some help recovering some files created.

I woke yesterday morning to find my laptop with a completely different desktop and all files/folders apparently erased from my laptop...all applications were there. I thought I had been hacked and immediately freaked and begin trying to restore from an offline backup since I had things due in a few hours. However, the backup was from two weeks ago and had a lot of gaps in documents and accounting information created in that time period. I spent most of the morning recreating or creating documents to do some billing that were due. After spending hours doing this, I found my data by chance when I clicked on my profile/documents. Apparently, it appears Windows automatically updated my laptop (which I have turned off), restarted my computer under a different user and never completed the installation. Once I figured this out, I completed the updates install and logged back in to find everything is back, but now I can't find any of the documents I created yesterday before figuring this out. Can anyone tell me where these may be? I have no idea which profile they were created under and looked in all know user folders and can't find them. I have searched by date and nothing. Any help is greatly appreciate and will save me considerable time recreating them again.

Thanks!

 

[samuria]

Welcome to the forum. One would assume they will be in documents on the other users profile so if you login again as that user and check

 

[Kbass6319]

I would agree, but I am the only user on the laptop, setup as Administrator. That's what is so puzzling about this. I am not sure how the laptop even started up using any other profile than mine and why I was so alarmed when i saw a completely different desktop and none of my documents.

 

[samuria]

If it logged in with another profile it must be there under users unless your restore has destroyed it what did you use to do restore disk image?

 

[Kbass6319]

When I got to my office yesterday morning that's when I realized something happened overnight while the laptop was left on. It was a new desktop and my documents were not where they should be. It appears Windows restarted my laptop, but the updates install must have started in a new profile instead of completing the updates install. Later in the day I realized that Windows had updated my machine, I restarted it and the updates started loading and when finished it restarted to my profile and everything was there except all the work I did yesterday morning prior to figuring out what happened. I have gone "Users" folders and looked in each one and can't find the documents I created yesterday. Unless something is hidden or it's a permissions issue, which it shouldn't be, I'm the Administrator, they are not where I can see them.

 

[samuria]

Even as admin you can't access other users folders you would have to take ownership failing that do a search of the hd as that can access folders. Are they docs missing or other software that may have set folders to save to