Docker Desktop is a useful tool, but imagine that you have a host of containers installed, packed with useful information which suddenly disappears following a successful upgrade of Docker Desktop. Judging by a quick search on the internet, this is not uncommon scenario.

There are a few suggestions online which seem to work for different cases. One of the solutions is to turn on, or off, containerd support. What I haven’t seen suggested is to turn on and then off containerd support. This worked for me.

As of version version 4.37.0, the process is:

• Open Settings
• Make sure ‘General’ is selected on the left
• Scroll down and select ‘User containerd for pulling and storing images’
• Accept the warning
• Unselect containerd setting