Can’t see any documents?

LazySausage · 30 Dec 2021 at 19:17

Evening all,

Recently upgraded a few components (mobo, RAM and case) and I wiped everything due to having a few bugs with windows after moving all my storage to the new pc.

Anyway, now I can’t see any documents on file explorer? I only realised this after trying to edit some of the documents on Halo infinite so I can set the FPS to my screen refresh rate, instead of the maximum 99fps the in-game settings allow.

I go to file explorer, click on documents and there’s nothing there? Obviously it’s a new PC so I’m not expecting tons of stuff, but there’s just nothing? I done the same thing with halo before my upgrade and I just copy & pasted the document name into file explorer and it was there.

Possibly me being dense but any help is much appreciated. Ty

LazySausage · 30 Dec 2021 at 19:49

UnworthyBean said:
Have you installed Halo yet?

Yeah I've downloaded everything I use regularly e.g Halo, discord and any programs I need like iCUE and stuff like that.

LazySausage · 30 Dec 2021 at 19:56

Bouton Aide said:
I think you have already answered your own question.

But surely if I’ve download games and other stuff, (iCUE, Ccleaner, discord etc) I should have something there? And like I said, I done this before I upgraded anything and all I did was copy & paste the file name, which now apparently doesn’t exist, even though I’ve got the same game installed?

LazySausage · 30 Dec 2021 at 20:11

This PC > Documents.

Again, it may be me being dense, I’m alright at putting PCs together, but then I’m as good as a chocolate teapot once they’re turned on ‍

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it’s just when I done this before the upgrade, everything worked fine. Now when I try the exact same thing, I get “windows can’t find ‘blahblahblah’ check the spelling and try again”. And then I noticed the documents folder was completely empty, so I thought that would be the problem considering that’s where I was searching for it.

LazySausage · 30 Dec 2021 at 20:18

I just reset it completely and reinstalled windows from cloud. The only thing I may have done differently is sign into a Microsoft account that I had years ago. The pc I was upgrading was a pre built by ********* so it was all set up when I plugged it in.

LazySausage · 30 Dec 2021 at 20:24

Bouton Aide said:
It's a new user then so everything will have gone from that user. It might still be there as said above. If you don't see any more users under C:\Users then it's been wiped fully.

I thought this but then where are all the files for halo saved? Surely if I’ve installed the game and other things on whatever user I’m using now I should still see the documents?

LazySausage · 30 Dec 2021 at 21:20

Bouton Aide said:
Depends how you installed it.

Through gamepass if that makes a difference? I did have it on steam & gamepass before though, (steam for the MP when it was released and gamepass for the campaign) so not sure if that makes a difference as now I only have it on GP.