Since the notification area, like on mobile, tends to become full of garbage, users rightfully do not expect it to be a place where hyper-critical information like this will appear, or at least not using the same format. Further, this wording is inadequate. The vast majority of people would reasonably not understand that dragging your pictures back to the My Pictures folder, where they already were moments ago, is what the message means by "creating files in this profile". Further still, there's no reason for Windows to choose not to behave in a reasonable way in this scenario (e.g. prevent writes to the profile, or show a dialogue when you try to write using Explorer, saying "if you do this, the files will be deleted").

Wow, that's way too subtle. Explorer should say something scary when you try to move files into that area from another part of the disk.

Yeah, that's definitively not enough notification.

When you have a similar problem on Linux, and you home is inaccessible or read-only, you get an almost screen-sized dialog, no desktop background (something hard to replicate on your settings), and the system theme (that is probably different from your DE's default).

when my home is not available, my linux returns to the login screen so fast I can't tell anything happened. after a few stabs at that I ctrl-alt-pop a console tty to see what it says. I've created an additional wheel user with $HOME in the root just so I have a place to log in and and look around.

of course it's always been the unix way to be strong-silent without have a lot of "informative" message clutter, so I'm generally sad to see it friendlied up.

> of course it's always been the unix way to be strong-silent without have a lot of "informative" message clutter

Unix is for silent success. I don't think there is any overall culture about what to do on errors.

But anyway, when you lose your home dir, your computer becomes obviously broken. Your a bit more than mine, but it's the obviousness that is important. (Anyway, I don't gain anything from the extra functionality my system holds when compared to yours. It's always a hardware problem, a X session is useless.)

You will on current supported Windows versions as well:

https://www.windowsphoneinfo.com/attachments/97fdf7d3-6fca-4...

Windows 7 left extended support two and a half years ago, mainstream support seven years ago, and hasn't been in development for eleven years. (Like commenting from Windows XP in 2001 that Windows 3.11 in 1993 had an unhelpful dialog box).

The picture of the notification there in the original comment is from Windows 10.

"Please see the ev"

WTF. That looks really amateurish. Why couldn't they make the notification window larger?