I have the same problem. It's a separate issue from the autohide feature / solution linked above, by ZubaZ (thank you though for the response).  I have select shortcuts (not all of them) that are missing on the desktop, but when I navigate to the desktop folder in file explorer, they are there.  I do use the autohide feature, and like it.  This is different though.

I had the same problem starting yesterday, and was able to get my fences and their contents to reappear on the desktop by toggling on/off the "enable fences" and quick hide enablement checkboxes a few times. I don't know if the workaround will keep the problem from recurring, but for now it seems okay. Hope this helps!

Possibly related problem.

When removing a drive (only seen this with USB flash drives so far), a blank modal window will appear with no window control elements (close, min, max buttons) or gui elements (no menu, rubbon, files). It's an explorer.exe window with no way to interact or hide, beyond dragging the top window frame. It can be closed by hovering over the taskbar and closing with the preview view close button.

When I close this oddball window, all the desktop icons disappear until I restart explorer, while the fences are still visible and the icons are still available when navigating within explorer. I tried:

- Double clicking desktop (Fences's hide desktop icons feature)
- Disabling/enabling Fences, hide desktop icons, paging feature

The one catch might be that I have QTTabbar installed, which hooks into explorer to do things like tabs and multiple panes. I've seen it do some freaky stuff when folders suddenly become unavailable, but I've never had the desktop icons disappear because of it.

I have been experiencing this disappearing icon problem, and also have noticed they are still in the Desktop Folder as seen in Explorer, and are active when clicked. 

Missing icons reappear on rebooting.

This has been going on for about a year.  Platform:  Win 10 Pro 64 bit, with MS Office Pro.  Commodo Antivirus and Firewall.

Hello Basj,

 I will attempt to do what you suggest when the next “happening” occurs.

 One thing I omitted to advise, is that the various “Fences” were still in place.  It is the contents that did their magic vanishing act.

 Thanks,

 Alan.

I'm having the same problem as AlanTRT. Here is a screenshot. I just updated Windows 10 to the latest 1909 build (18363.657), and I still have the same Fences problem. I unchecked the "enable Fences" box and rechecked it. No change. 

Suggestions are most welcome. I'd hate to lose Fences!

I am facing the same problem, I had select shortcuts  that are missing on the desktop But they are in other folders.

Was this ever fixed or have a solution?  I just purchased this and this morning I created a new fence and when i moved my icons in there all my other icons from my other fences disappeared.

I didn't have time to wait on this to get fixed so I just restored the prior image and moved each file into my new fence one at a time.  It is a bit annoying and I hope it doesn't happen again.  This was the second time for me.  The first time a restart resolved the issue. This time i restarted 3 times with no luck so just did the restore.

Same problem here...

All my icons disapear of my desktop BUT the files are in desktop folder...

I uninstall completely Fence, I restart and my icons still hidden !!!!!

Please help !

I am using Fences 3 with Win 10 Pro and find that several Icons disappear from within Fences. When I recreate them, they have a 2 added to the end (indicating the shortcuts already existed somewhere on my Desktop). When using File Explorer and looking at Desktop, the missing shortcuts and the new ones created are all listed.

I have gone through every setting in the Fences Menu and found nothing that would cause this issue, nor can I locate the Icons on my computer Desktop, inside or outside an existing Fence.

Very frustrating!

This problem is common.  It happens on and off since I installed Fences 3.  Certain icons randomly appear/disappear.  Not seeing any solution in this age-old thread.