Re:A surprising way to lose your files on Windows
by Someone on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:48AM
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On top of that, the message says (emphasis added) “files CREATED in this profile will be deleted when you log off”. In this case, the user didn’t CREATE files; they MOVED them.
I also doubt the typical user will know that profile is shorthand for user profile and know what that is.
End result: because of corruption of some data the user likely is only remotely interested in, all data they were interested in got deleted.
Re:A surprising way to lose your files on Windows
by jodrellblank on Saturday October 01, 2022 @02:50PM
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The Windows 10 one (which, NB, is from 7+ years ago) says "any changes you make will be lost" and doesn't mention "profile":
https://www.windowsphoneinfo.com/attachments/97fdf7d3-6fca-4...
Re:A surprising way to lose your files on Windows
by mike256 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @03:34PM
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I don't think this makes it any better. Imho "any changes you make will be lost" would mean to move the files back to where they were before and not delete them.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/my-pro...
A notification in the status bar, along with their other 10+ notifications about Skype, printers, antivirus etc. They didn't see it, or if they did see it, didn't understand the implications. The horrible thing is that they didn't want to bother me with it, and tried to solve the issue themselves :(