Missing administrative templates from Group Policy Windows 2012 Domain Controllers

Today I went to edit our domain group policies (which I do often) and found the Administrative templates is empty. Example right click any policy and choose edit then select user configuration then select policies then Administrative templates and none of the usual items and sub folders are there. Any ideas how to resolve this?

Windows 2012 domain controllers. (both have same issue)

Windows Server 2012Active Directory

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Zoldy2000

8/22/2022 - Mon

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Zoldy2000

8/26/2016

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The policy definitions are already in that folder. I installed the latest ones anyone and still have the same issue. Not sure if this is a clue but the only policy template that is showing is a custom one from a software vendor for deployment and it is located in a different folder. Could mind be somehow reading from the wrong folder?

C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol\mydomain.com\Policies\PolicyDefinitions

Zoldy2000

8/26/2016

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I just copied these files C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions to here C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol\mydomain.com\Policies\PolicyDefinitions and that fixed the problem although I am still puzzled why this happened at least it worked.

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