title: Versioning in Visual Code Studio hid/deleted my local files on my Hard Drive
body: <p>I was trying to change the versioning in visual code studio as it was showing my desktop as master, I found &quot;master&quot; green icon, when I clicked on the &quot;X&quot; sign next to it more than 500 files shown in the versioning control pane have disappeared when I clicked on the X sign , but the folders on my desktop still exist.
  How can I recover my missing files.</p>
  <p>I tried &quot; git checkout master&quot;</p>
  <p>and I got ==&gt; Already on 'master' Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'</p>
  <p>Also, I tried VCS documentation and FAQs, but I couldn't find a clear answer to my question</p>