A surprising way to lose your files on Windows

Re:A surprising way to lose your files on Windows by Someone on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:48AM (#33047456)

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.

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Re:A surprising way to lose your files on Windows by jodrellblank on Saturday October 01, 2022 @02:50PM (#33048963)

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...

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Re:A surprising way to lose your files on Windows by mike256 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @03:34PM (#33049329)

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.

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Re:A surprising way to lose your files on Windows by Thorrez on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:02AM (#33053296)

I think one solution to this would be to treat clicking and dragging files to the temp profile the same as clicking and dragging files to a USB drive: it copies instead of the normal move.

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Re:A surprising way to lose your files on Windows by StuckDuck on Sunday October 02, 2022 @01:50AM (#33053231)

Agree. Still, this is horrible

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