Restore file from second monitor?

I have a small problem.

For a few days now, my son has been busy writing his homework for his final exam. Now we have a big problem.

Since the laptop screen is too small for him, he always connects his monitor to the laptop so that he has a larger picture. He then pushed the entire folder onto the second monitor and now the monitor has given up the ghost.

If he now wants to open a file in Word (e.g. The cover sheet) it says that the file has been moved or deleted.

I don't quite understand that, because actually everything should have been saved on the laptop anyway.

Is it somehow possible to get to this folder again?

Would be very grateful for help as he has to hand this work in this week.

Nothing can be saved on a monitor, it only shows the image!

That sounds more like the 2nd monitor is an all-in-one pc and he has now moved the folder to it.

You can't move a folder to a monitor.

I suspect he moved the folder from a directory to the desktop. Therefore, simply click on desktop under / under "This PC" in the file browser and search for the folder.

I suspect the error message from Word comes from trying to open the term paper using the files last used, but the file path to the old folder could still be stored there.

Also possible

Yes we thought so too. But then the folder has to be somewhere?

The monitor is not an all in one PC, just a monitor to which he has connected his Playstation.

The folder was on the desktop, which he then dragged over to the second monitor. And this is no longer there

A monitor only shows the image that the graphics card outputs.

i.e. Connect another monitor and it shows the same as the current one, because the laptop outputs the image to the monitor.

it should right-click on the folder or the file and see what is there (size, creation date, modification date, etc.)

then look in other folders or search for the folder using the search function (he must have given the whole thing a meaningful name).

The "desktop" as a storage location is also just a directory on the computer. So if that was a monitor and not a PC of its own as assumed by data2309, then the storage location can't have been moved, only the ICON. Even if this directory can't be displayed on the desktop due to insufficient space, the directory can be accessed via the file browser.

If that doesn't help you can try to restore files via the recycle bin or if the files are gone there too, you can try to restore a version with https://www.computerbild.de/...30405.html or another tool

I've already tried everything. : /