Nonetheless, the monkey’s on Microsoft’s back to restore your data. ![]() If you lost the contents of your Documents or Photos folder and can’t pull it back yourself, you’re probably SOL. For more information, please refer to our Windows 10 update history page ( KB article ), which we are updating with new information as it is available.īased on the discussions posted online, it’s apparent that Microsoft doesn’t have a magic wand, and probably can’t do any better than a run of Recuva or similar undelete package. While we cannot guarantee the outcome of any file recovery work, if you have manually checked for updates and believe you have an issue with missing files, please minimize your use of the affected device and contact us directly at +1-800-MICROSOFT or find a local number in your area. Microsoft retail stores support services also offer this same level of support in-store. To help our customers that may be impacted by this issue, Microsoft Support is assisting customers and trying to recover data for users who may have experienced related data loss. Shut down the machine and follow this official advice : ![]() If you lost all the files in your Documents, Photos, or other folders, don’t do anything. Thus it would appear that if you get all the way to 17763.55, you’ll be beyond the two devastating bugs, and can feast on the usual, garden variety bugs. In addition to all the security holes that got fixed on Patch Tuesday. Per the KB article:Īddresses an issue where an incorrect timing calculation may prematurely delete user profiles on devices subject to the "Delete user profiles older than a specified number of day” group policy. The most important change in 17763.55? It gets rid of the user profile deletion bug. Yesterday, Patch Tuesday, saw the release of KB 4464330, which brings any build of Win10 version 1809 up to build 17763.55. Unless you’re on 1803 (or 1709), and switch to Windows Insider builds on the Slow ring, all you’ll be testing is the upgrade from a non-existent 17763.1 to a now-obsolete 17763.17. See the flaw in that logic? In almost all cases this move doesn’t test the (badly) broken installer, the one that zapped files when moving from 1803 to 1809. If you’re in the Windows Insider program and your machine is set on the Slow or Release Preview ring, you saw an update yesterday, taking your machine from 17763.1 to 17763.17. Yesterday, Patch Tuesday, Microsoft started rolling out a new build for version 1809. I wonder how many people clicked “Check for updates” expecting that Windows would, you know, check for updates, only to discover that the contents of their Documents and Photos folders had been obliterated. In any case, if you got hit, it wasn’t your fault. You can try to slog through Microsoft’s explanation, or read Peter Bright’s much more accessible take on Ars Technica. This “Known Folder Redirect” feature can kick in silently, notably if you installed an early version of OneDrive. What happened? Microsoft says there were three bugs in the way the installer treated files that were installed in pre-defined folders that had been redirected - moved from one location to another. You can judge the veracity of that claim as you wish, but I’d note in passing that the rollout wasn’t officially halted until Friday night, more than three days after the Tuesday launch, and either a) one whole heckuvalot of people clicked on “Check for Updates,” or b) every single one of the scorched 0.01% complained loudly - most of them directly to me. While the reports of actual data loss are few (one one-hundredth of one percent of version 1809 installs), any data loss is serious. At just two days into the rollout when we paused, the number of customers taking the October 2018 Update was limited. … In this case the update was only available to those who manually clicked on “check for updates” in Windows settings. Last week we paused the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) for all users as we investigated isolated reports of users missing files after updating. Version 1809 has very few improvements - none of which warrant sacrificing a real, working PC.) I continue to suggest that you roll back to your previous version of Win10 and wait for the major bugs to devour themselves. If you’re sitting on 17763.1 (type “About” in the search box), and you still have files in your Documents, Pictures, Music, Screenshots, Videos, Camera Roll and/or Desktop folders, you’re OK. ![]() The problem with the original version of Win10 version 1809 lies in the installer. Here’s where we are, and how we got into this mess.
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