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First we need to make sure vanilla Terraria is working properly before we tackle your tModLoader problem.
Just a NOTA BENE, though... The Players and Worlds folders go here:
C:\Users\(your user name)\Documents\My Games\Terraria
Not here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Terraria
That second directory has all of your core files in it. If you reinstall your game, you will be reinstalling to there. All you need in the first directory are your Players folder, your Worlds folder, three ".json" files (config.json, favorites.json and input profiles.json), and your servers file. If you have those then you should be fine there. If you don't then reinstalling through Steam or playing your game should give you those files back.
The image you posted is a Discord image and Steam won't let me view it but I am betting it looks like the setup installer that you get if you bought Terraria on a CD. Regardless, if there are no other files except for that one globe file in your Terraria folder and Terraria still functions normally then either the files are elsewhere or they are all in that globe file and you need to extract them somehow. What is the file extension for that file? What happens if you open it? Which directory is the file in? The Steam directory inside Program Files (x86) or your User directory?
The "Terraria Server" file you mentioned is something you are supposed to have and you have it. So is the Terraria.exe file and you have that, too. That's good. You should also have the TerrariaMusic.xgs file and you have it, which is good, but that file should be inside a folder named "Content" within the Terraria Steam directory. As long as it is in there, you are fine. Not a lot of this will be useful in determining how your Terraria folders are set up, though, because you are using the Search function. Instead, you should open each subsequent folder within the pathway for each of the two Terraria folders to see what they have in them. We would have a better idea what the globe files are if we know where they are. I.e. which folder they are in, and which folder that folder is in, and so on.
Forgive me if I use multiple different names for the directories the two Terraria folders are in - it is hard to know how they should be referred by so I tend to flip-flop a bit - but generally I use "Steam directory" and "User directory" because those two are the most basic that are generally understood.
If you go into your Terraria folder in the Steam directory, this is what the contents of the folder should look like:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1870537185
And this is what the contents of the Terraria folder within your User directory should look like:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1870538524
If you go into Windows Explorer and find either one of your Terraria folders, they should look like the screenshots above. If you haven't already, find your Terraria folders and tell me what each Terraria folder has in it. Do not use the Search.
If I am understanding you correctly, all you need to do is use your Windows Explorer Searchbar (yes I know I told you to avoid it earlier) and look for the names of your characters and worlds. When (or if) they show up in your search results, you right-click on them and - in the drop-down menu - click on "Open Folder Location." That will show you exactly where your files are.
Now, finding your files is one matter. Getting your game to store your characters and worlds where you want them is another matter and I am not entirely sure how to do that but you might be able to do it from Steam. But that is only a guess.
This is very unusual. Those folders you mentioned are for screenshots that you take while playing, not actual character and world files. Whenever you press F10 while playing, Steam takes a screenshot and it ends up in one of those folders. We definitely need to fix those because I don't think those will be stable for long. Anything that purges those folders will also purge your characters and worlds.
Uninstalling tModloader will not get rid of the folders tModLoader puts in your Terraria User directory unless you manually delete them yourself. I actually still have those folders on my PC since the last time I used tModLoader so no surprise there. I don't have an Achievements file to my knowledge (unless mine has a different name) but that notepad document called "Favourites" is actually a json file that you probably decided to open one day with notepad. Which doesn't surprise me because if you want to edit json files then you do need to convert them to text files unless you have software specifically designed for json files.
All in all, nothing too strange there.
This I find a bit weird because my tModLoader folder never had a "Favourites" file and I had no idea it could save maps you download. My main Terraria folder has a Favourites file, though, so I guess I will have to do some tinkering with that.
The Worlds folder in your tModLoader folder are worlds you can open while you are using mods. The Worlds folder in your main Terraria folder are worlds you can open while playing vanilla Terraria. And you can move these world files between folders depending on whether you want to play them with mods or while playing vanilla.
The only thing I would say of note here would be that if you play a world while using mods and you put mod items in a chest, on a mannequin/womannequin or on an item or equipment rack, those items will disappear when you open the would in vanilla. And I have no idea whether they will come back or not if you decide to play modded with that world.
So, all in all, your world files and other files seem to be fine. There is only the matter of moving your character files back into the Terraria folder and then getting your game to keep saving them there. I don't know why your character files are being saved in your Steam screenshots folder but there is one possibility. Are you saving your characters to the Steam Cloud?
I would recommend creating a Players folder in your Terraria folder (if there isn't one in there already) and then moving all of those character files you found into there, then see if your game can load them. If you can't find those files while playing vanilla or modded and you are sure you are not saving those characters to the Steam Cloud then we will need to get your game to change where it is saving your characters.