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Comment by raffraffraff | Hacker News Reader

So I Googled this to see what they were shown...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/my-pro...

A notification in the status bar, along with their other 10+ notifications about Skype, printers, antivirus etc. They didn't see it, or if they did see it, didn't understand the implications. The horrible thing is that they didn't want to bother me with it, and tried to solve the issue themselves :(

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On top of that, the message says (emphasis added) “files CREATED in this profile will be deleted when you log off”. In this case, the user didn’t CREATE files; they MOVED them.

I also doubt the typical user will know that profile is shorthand for user profile and know what that is.

End result: because of corruption of some data the user likely is only remotely interested in, all data they were interested in got deleted.

The Windows 10 one (which, NB, is from 7+ years ago) says "any changes you make will be lost" and doesn't mention "profile":

https://www.windowsphoneinfo.com/attachments/97fdf7d3-6fca-4...

I don't think this makes it any better. Imho "any changes you make will be lost" would mean to move the files back to where they were before and not delete them.

Agree. Still, this is horrible

I think one solution to this would be to treat clicking and dragging files to the temp profile the same as clicking and dragging files to a USB drive: it copies instead of the normal move.

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