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Question about the win 10 update data loss
It was my understanding that the data loss was limited to data stored
in the C: users (name of user) Documents folder. Anyone know if that's correct? I happen to have a few files there, but haven't noticed anything missing. |
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Question about the win 10 update data loss
Charlie Hoffpauir wrote:
It was my understanding that the data loss was limited to data stored in the C: users (name of user) Documents folder. Anyone know if that's correct? I happen to have a few files there, but haven't noticed anything missing. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018...sider-testing/ If you believe that description (and the description is different than the first explanation I read), then a single missing folder would be evidence of everything below that folder could be gone. If you redirect a Junction Point from the original place to a new place, the original folder which was the target of the Junction Point is an orphan. You'd be checking whether that folder exists or not. The Sysinternals program "junction" can give the info, using a brand new Windows install as evidence. This is what it looks like before anyone messes with it. (Even the OneDrive folder is allowed to mess with the Junctions.) \\?\C:\Users\User Name\My Documents: JUNCTION Substitute Name: C:\Users\User Name\Documents So "My Documents" points to the "Documents" folder. That's normal. And that person doesn't lose anything when the 1809 update comes in. ******* Now, let's do a second one. "Clever User" moved his Documents to the D: drive. A run with "Junction64 -s blah" shows this. When it looks like this, you have to check for damage. \\?\C:\Users\Clever User\My Documents: JUNCTION Substitute Name: D:\Documents OK, the aborted 1809 Update comes in. What does "Clever User" lose when that happens ? C:\Users\Clever User\Documents That's the orphan directory that is no longer being used, but could still have files in it. Any old files present before the change to the Junction to make it direct somewhere else, are now deleted. Microsoft did: del C:\Users\Clever User\Documents because they determined by examining a Ouija board, that the directory no longer "served a purpose of the Microsoft Corporation" And everything below is gone. Paul Paul |
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