Next, you can choose to "Scan drive" if wanted or "Repair drive" if errors were found. Step 4. Wait while Error Checking scans the selected hard drive for errors. If errors were found, you may be asked to restart your computer. If no errors were found, you can close any open windows and continue using your computer normally. If your hard drive has logical bad sectors , or its file system has corrupted, you can't access the files saved on it. Click the Search box, type CMD. Right-click the Command Prompt and choose "Run as administrator".
Here you can replace F with your drive letter. After the fix, you may view your files if the damage is caused by a bad sector or a corrupted file system. If not, move to the following solutions. This command scans all protected system files for corruption.
EaseUS CleanGenius is a user-friendly computer fixing tool that is both safe and lightweight. Use this one-click tool to fix the damaged file system easily.
Run the software. Click "Optimization", and then choose "File Showing". Select the drive with a corrupted file system. Tick the "Check and fix file system error" option and click "Execute". Wait the tool performs the repairing task. After that, click the "here" button to check the drive. Only system files will be restored so there's no need to worry about losing personal data from using this Windows tool.
Still can't open Downloads Windows 10? The third fix we suggest trying is much simpler than the others so far. After you download any file, Windows takes the liberty of filtering it into a category — music, photos, videos, etc. Certain folders, like the Pictures folder, are automatically set to optimize files as photos. At the top of the window, locate and right-click on "Downloads", and select "Properties". Click on the "Customize" tab and under the "Optimize this folder for" option, click the drop-down menu and choose "General items".
Check the box "Also apply this template to all subfolders", press the "Apply" button, and click "OK". It may take a few minutes for this change to be applied to the Downloads folder and all of its contents. Afterwards, check if the folder is still inaccessible. This next fix will come as a surprise for most users. As a result, if even just one file has a corrupt thumbnail that doesn't load properly, you could be blocked from opening Downloads.
Go to the "View" tab and observe the "Advanced settings" section. If the setting hasn't already been turned on, enable "Always show icons, never thumbnails" by checking the box next to it. Click "Apply" and "OK", then check whether or not the problem still occurs.
Using this method will stop thumbnails from loading when you want to open the Downloads folder. Thus, if a corrupt thumbnail is at the root of the error, showing the icons instead will let you regain access to the folder. After trying these 4 fixes you'll either have fixed the issue or you still can't open Downloads folder in Windows But don't worry, there is at least one effective way left. What you can do is to recover files from the inaccessible folder using a third-party data recovery tool: AnyRecover.
As a powerful program which specializes in data loss issues, AnyRecover can handle almost any data problems arising in various scenarios: emptied trash, accidental data deletion, partition error, system crash, corrupted or formatted device, etc.
With it, you can retrieve data from the Downloads folder which is no longer accessible in an easy and fast way. Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information. Before that, the files in the folder had no sorting and it is possible some users never even knew it existed.
It can group by more than just time and you might find the other options in the sub-menu to be useful. The Downloads folder tends to build up with files. All apps that are capable of downloading files download them to it by default. You may not remember what a file you downloaded was called but you might have some idea as to when you downloaded it.
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