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A surprising way to lose your files on Windows
This sad sequence of events just happened to a relative, and they're distraught. I haven't used Windows for ~15 years but since it was my area of expertise back then I still get lumbered with these problems. This one really surprised me though.<p>They logged into Windows 7 (I know, upgrade...) and it looked like their files were missing. In a panic, they opened Explorer and searched for their files. They turned up in the search. They just didn't show up in the usual "My Documents", "My Pictures", "My Videos" paths.<p>They decided to move the files "to the correct place". And then they shut the computer down.<p>The next time they started it, the same thing happened. This is where I got called in, because <i>this</i> time, the files didn't show up in a search. I told them to turn the computer off immediately and drop it with me.<p>Can you guess what happened? Well, check this out:<p>- Windows couldn't use their user profile because it was corrupted<p>- So it created a temporary profile in "C:\Users\TEMP". (This wasn't obvious to the user because Explorer hides the 'detail' of the file path and simply shows the username)<p>- Unwittingly, when they moved the precious files to the "correct" place, they were putting them into a <i>temporary</i> profile.<p>- On shutdown, Windows promptly deleted the temporary profile, so "C:\Users\TEMP" got wiped along with all of the files.<p>I was frankly astonished that Windows would drop them into a temporary user profile without dire warnings about its transience. Anyway, now I have to try to recover not only the files, but the directory structures. I'm not even sure it's possible... :(
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