Deleted My Music Folder - Windows 7

Question

I don't know why but I deleted the "my music" folder from my documents.
Its not in the recycling bin. I didn't have anything in it as yet.
Any suggestions how to get the folder back?

Answer 1

How to find your Music folder:

http://www.vistaclues.com/my-picture...e-did-they-go/

Follow these instructions to add it to your Favorites:

http://www.vistaclues.com/add-favori...s-in-explorer/

Answer 2

Amanda, you wrote:

I deleted the "my music" folder from my documents. Its not in the recycling bin.

You also say that you have Windows 7. This strikes me as a bit odd, as the "My Music" folder is not in the "My Documents" folder, but at the same level. In other words, assuming that your Windows username is amanda, then you should see two folders with the path:

C:\Users\amanda\Music

C:\Users\amanda\Documents

I suspect that what you've actually done is to remove the "My Music" entry from the Libraries hierarchy in the Windows Explorer. This doesn't put any folders into the Recycle Bin, it just deletes the entry from the Libraries.

To put it back, just right-click on the Music library icon, choose Properties, and in the Properties window click the "Include a folder..." button to include C:\Users\amanda\Music back into the Library view.

Answer 3

I "lost" My Videos folder from Windows 7. none of the ideas on the microsoft forums helped.

Found it myself: Right click on "Libraries". Left click on "restore default libraries".

Job done. Folder restored.

Answer 4

Maybe you did not delete it but moved it into a different folder?

Answer 5

Does the folder still exist at the location C:\Users\username\Music? If not, create a new folder at that location.

Answer 6

You can skip the Recycling Bin when deleting something by holding Shift before hitting Delete.

But I've actually had a similar experience with Vista HP 64-bit, where my Videos folder just completely disappeared without warning and opened up 80GB on my hard drive.

You're lucky you just lost your Music folder. Losing the Videos folder really sucked.

Answer 7

The "virtual folder" you deleted is actually called a junction, and it is rebuildable.

The following article explains how to rebuild or create a new junction. I will include an example line as well which you can simply plug into the command line and it will rebuild this junction for you.

ARTICLE : http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6177180.html

CMD PROMPT : mklink /j "Desired Location for My Music Junction" "Actual Location of Music Folder"

Be sure that when typing in your directories you have the quotation marks around the listings if there are odd symbols or spaces. otherwise this command will not work.

Answer 8

i just spent 2 hours trying to figure this problem of "music folder disapperance" and i know what the problem is.. it seems that (while moving the music folder) we accidentally moved it directly to a hard drive partition, so we can't see it but can access it.. so i tried to move it back to the default place - C:\Users\Name\Music, and it showed me a "system volume" error but it transferred and now it's ok.. try it, maybe it'll help..