Question User Folders with Files Mysteriously Disappeared.

[Dave3000]

I recently installed Windows 10 Pro and performed a robocopy /e from my backup external drive to my D partition on my SSD and I noticed that after the copy finished that my user folders with my files disappeared. These folders were the Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Musics, and Videos folder and their subfolders which were redirected to my D partition on my SSD. Good thing I made a recent backup of those files before I installed Windows 10. Initially I did a robocopy /e MSFS d:\ but noticed that the Community and Official folder was without the parent folder called MSFS while it was doing the copy so I canceled the copy process and performed it again as robocopy /e MSFS d:\Games\MSFS. When the copy process was finished and when to download GOG Galaxy and noticed that Edge was set to download to a Temp folder instead of my redirected Downloads folder and when I changed it to my redirected Downloads folder it said that it could not find the Downloads folder. My other redirected User folders gone as well except for the Videos one. I had to setup the redirected user folders once again and recopy my files from my backup drive to the redirected user folders on my D partition.

I did check my Samsung 980 Pro 2TB SSD using Samsung Magician's full surface scan and extended smart test and there were no errors found on the SSD and the extended smart test completed successfully. Could the user folders with the subfolders and files disappear because I cancelled the robocopy process. I did click on the X on the upper right of the window of the robocopy process when I canceled it so maybe I cancelled it the wrong way and corrupted my D partition? My RAM seems fine as I didn't get errors in 2 hours of Memtest86 and the 2 passes of the Windows Memory Diagnostics Test.

 

[Dave3000]

I reran the robocopy command that I did it the wrong way and cancelled it to see if that is what caused the issue but my redirected user folders are still there. I can conclude that it did not cause the issue. Also could it be because my Windows C partition might not be big enough? I only assigned 100GB for C and had only around 32GB of free space on my C partition at the time of the issue. Also is it best not to redirect my user folders via explorer and redirect them via the applications instead, for example instead of redirecting my Documents folder in explorer to D, is it better to redirect the Documents folder to D via LIbreOffice or any other application that has an option for the Documents path and instead of redirecting the Downloads folder to D via explorer, just redirect it to D via the Edge browser or any other internet browser? Basically is it more reliable to redirect user folders at the application level than the OS level?