Boiled Water posted:

what is the purpose behind the microsoft line of computers? is it just to show the work that if you throw resources and a thimble of passion behind something you can get not terrible laptops?

Fiedler posted:

encourages oem r&d in the windows device ecosystem. might some day grow into a real consumer brand.

Lambert posted:

Microsoft's best hardware to date

Lambert posted:

Microsoft's best hardware to date

Lambert posted:

Microsoft's best hardware to date

graph posted:

100%

mine is 19 years old. i have three others in a drawer

syscall girl posted:

lost mine in divorce

also cats

syscall girl posted:

lost mine in divorce

also cats

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Prior to re-releasing the October 2018 Update our engineering investigation determined that a very small number of users lost files during the October 2018 Update. This occurred if Known Folder Redirection (KFR) had been previously enabled, but files remain in the original “old” folder location vs being moved to the new, redirected location. KFR is the process of redirecting the known folders of Windows including Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Screenshots, Videos, Camera Roll, etc. from the default folder location, c:\users\username\<folder name>, to a new folder location. In previous feedback from the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, users with KFR reported an extra, empty copy of Known Folders on their device. Based on feedback from users, we introduced code in the October 2018 Update to remove these empty, duplicate known folders. That change, combined with another change to the update construction sequence, resulted in the deletion of the original “old” folder locations and their content, leaving only the new “active” folder intact. Accordingly, below are the issues we have identified and fixed:

• Using KFR the user redirected a known folder to a different drive. For example, suppose you ran out of space on your C drive. You want to save some files separate from your primary folder, so you add another drive to your system for these. You create “D:\documents” and change the location of the files known folder from the original “old” location c:\users\username\documents to D:\documents. In some cases, if the contents of c:\users\username\documents were not moved to D:\documents, then a user could also encounter this issue. When the October 2018 Update was installed the original “old” folder was deleted including the files in that folder (in this example c:\users\username\documents would be deleted; d:\documents, the new location, would be preserved).
  
• The user configured one or more of their Known Folders (Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Screenshots, Videos, Camera Roll, etc.) to be redirected (KFR) to another folder on OneDrive. For example, the user changed the location property of the documents folder from c:\users\username\documents to another folder. During this process the system prompts the user and asks if they would like to move the files to the new location. If the files were not moved and the October 2018 Update is installed the original “old” folder was deleted including the files in that folder.
  
• The user used an early version of the OneDrive client and used the OneDrive settings to turn on the Auto save feature. This feature turned on KFR for the Documents and/or Pictures folders based on the user’s choice but did not move the existing files from the original “old” location to the new location. For example, if a user turned on Auto Save for pictures the location of the Pictures folder would be changed from c:\users\username\pictures to c:\users\username\onedrive\pictures, but no files would be moved. The current version of this feature moves the files. If the files were not moved and the October 2018 Update was installed the original “old” folder was deleted including the files in that folder (in this example c:\users\username\pictures would be deleted; c:\users\username\onedrive\pictures, the new location, would be preserved).

We have fully investigated these issues and developed solutions that resolve all three of these scenarios, so the “original” old folder location and its contents remain intact.

anthonypants posted:

good news everyone, windows 10 october 2018 update (version 1809) is in its first phase of qa

SRQ posted:

this update was in beta for at least six months, msft and apple both have public-facing and constant betas.

so for some inexplicable reason that folder deletion code was left out of the betas and only put in the production version and ????????????????????

i have a solution, gentlemen: if there's any files in those folders present the user with the fact that there's files there, and give them an option to clear it out, duplicate it into the new folders and clear it out, or do nothing.

MacOS Sierra had a similar issue where the new APFS file system converter broke and deleted entire drives but that was in the developer beta so it's far more excusable then dumping apparently untested code on the masses despite having idiots sign up to test for free.

Soldier of Fortran posted:

amazing

what possible reason was the cause for that change? why delete stuff at all? did people feel that the directory tree was getting unsightly or something?

cinci zoo sniper posted:

i checked my work computer by the way, and upgrade spawned like 6 extra user profile folders, 2 bogus and 4 tmp.bogus

Soldier of Fortran posted:

amazing

what possible reason was the cause for that change? why delete stuff at all? did people feel that the directory tree was getting unsightly or something?

Bulgakov posted:

lol

infernal machines posted:

it deffo started the profile process multiple times, which matched what cinci was describing when it ate his files

Lysidas posted:

isnt the intention of the .000 additions to increment the number in place for new ones, instead of successively appending .001 and .002?

Pinterest Mom posted:

is the classic intellimouse (2018) any good


e:??? it's a loving mouse satya

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

why are they only listing up to 10.10??

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

Microsoft working overtime to bring the linux experience to windows

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

if the .net monthly update rollups are actually rollups, why does windows update try to install two or more of them sequentially

cinci zoo sniper posted:

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

if the .net monthly update rollups are actually rollups, why does windows update try to install two or more of them sequentially

Shaggar posted:

if you have .net 2/3.5 and 4/4.x installed they are separate frameworks so they should have separate patches.