Showing posts with label files. Show all posts
Showing posts with label files. Show all posts

Monday, October 8, 2018

Windows 10 October Update Postponed Due To File-Deleting Bug


Windows 10 has had a number of problems since it's release by Microsoft. Last month, it was "warning" users not to use more popular web browsers and use Microsoft's own. But this time there's a more serious problem. On October 2, the "Windows 10 October 2018 Update" was released for Windows 10 insider testers and anyone else whom wanted to go ahead with the update. Soon after, some people were finding important files deleted, including music recordings and pictures. One user posted on the Microsoft forums, "it deleted all my files of 23 years in amount of 220gb. This is unbelievable, I have been using Microsoft products since 1995 and nothing like that ever happened to me." Fortunately, he had backed up his files a couple months earlier, but more recent ones were still gone.

Those whom had already updated were urged to migrate documents in their user directory, and those Windows 10 users whom hadn't to temporarily disable updates. Eventually, Microsoft suspended the update due to the reports of deleted files.

If you use Windows 10, and you're not sure if your computer installed the update, "To check if your system downloaded and installed the update, click the Windows / Start key and then type 'View Installed Update History.' Click that result and then check the last version that was installed. If it wasn't 1809, you should be safe."


Sources: ZDNet, Forbes, Microsoft.com

Bixyl Shuftan

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Computer Update


Some good news concerning my computer. The folder of many months of screenshots which was seemingly lost in March is now opening again. Exactly why it opened just now is as unclear as to why it closed to begin with. But in any event, thousands of screenshots (yours truly can take over a hundred in events like the Relay Weekend) and notes, a fraction of which have ended up in the newsletter, are now back, and this time backed up in a working external drive.

Bixyl Shuftan