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Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents

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Re: Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

This is particularly scary when combined with Windows' propensity to commandeer everything you plug into it.

My only W10 machine is an HTPC in my living room, into which I've plugged a 4TB external hard-drive. That box has no other purpose than to run Kodi and serve up my media, so the primary drive inside the PC itself is mostly free and has plenty of hard-drive space.

Nonetheless, I periodically open the external itself in the file explorer to sync its contents with my backup drives, and discover that Windows decided to use my external drive to store logs, update files, and other garbage. It seems to have no concept of the idea that an external drive is for my storage, not Microsoft's storage.

That lack of separation between the OS update process and userland worries me that the same bug which wipes out user directories could extend to the external, as well.

I'd just as soon unplug it before letting Windows 10 update, but then there's that nasty habit of updating automatically without warning me...

Re: Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents

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Post by cm2187 »

sebazzz wrote: post #3

It appears this has something to do with folder redirection and doing folder redirection to OneDrive. One of the workarounds might be to install the new OneDrive manually before updating.

Do you mean that microsoft is forcing onedrive on its users as part of the update?

Re: Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents

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Post by bhhaskin »

cm2187 wrote: post #5
sebazzz wrote: post #3

It appears this has something to do with folder redirection and doing folder redirection to OneDrive. One of the workarounds might be to install the new OneDrive manually before updating.

Do you mean that microsoft is forcing onedrive on its users as part of the update?

sadly onedrive has always been forced on users with windows 10.

Re: Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents

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Post by Tajnymag »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #4

This is particularly scary when combined with Windows' propensity to commandeer everything you plug into it. My only W10 machine is an HTPC in my living room, into which I've plugged a 4TB external hard-drive. That box has no other purpose than to run Kodi and serve up my media, so the primary drive inside the PC itself is mostly free and has plenty of hard-drive space. Nonetheless, I periodically open the external i…

If so, have you considered for example the LibreElec distribution?

If you don't need anything other than Kodi and an occasional file management, you'd be good.

Re: Windows 10’s latest update is deleting some users’ documents

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Post by maxnoe »

bhhaskin wrote: post #6
cm2187 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean that microsoft is forcing onedrive on its users as part of the update?

sadly onedrive has always been forced on users with windows 10.

How so? I have access several windows 10 machines and don't even use a Microsoft account on them.
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