Something came over me on the 7th Apr and I installed 1809 on my Desktop PC (W10 Pro)
Some days later I have almost given up trying to clean up the dogs breakfast it’s made of my folders etc. I’m currently backing up my desktop to an external drive before I try to reverse this update. No doubt that will be a mess too.
What did it do? Well it seems it didn’t like me putting everything into C:\users\*me*\documents\ to make backups dead simple, so it moved (copied) mp3s, jpgs, videos etc to folders outside. It also moved all the stuff in Documents & settings. The original folders it marked with security ‘deny to everyone’ and hid them.
Sadly, as I didn’t need some of the data immediately after the update, I didn’t realise that’s what happened – so had been using said desktop for 3 days until Thursday I tried to find a video via VLS they all appeared to have gone. The old folders now appear with a curly arrow as if they are short cuts – I’ve changed to security so I have access now. But they are not short cuts. System files. There’s loads of them, not just media.
It’s only because as an old DOSser I knew the Tree command to find them. God help the millenials.
On the 11th I had two copies of all these gigabytes of data. Now some have disappeared (frightening!)
On my laptop I have it nudging me to shut down and install (W10 home here).
I expect it’s cheaper for me time wise to source a linux box and move my stuff over.
This is appalling, I keep thinking they’ve upset a staffer who’s deliberately written this code, I mean moving a users data! with all the programs looking for it. Bizarre.
