I Hate Windows 11 - Part 430

[Terrel L. Shields]

Win 11 updated on my laptop...PITA...anyway it wiped out every picture in my pictures folders...left a couple of the subfolders. I thought maybe I accidentally deleted them and so went to the recycle folder. Zero. Nothing. WTF? MS is sorry outfit. Not moved. Just disappeared.

 

[glenn walker]

There not gone you just have to find them.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

here not gone you just have to find the

yep, finally found them under "saved games" under a cryptic subfolder... and they also moved a few folders from my genealogy folder that had pictures. Now...why did it wipe out my wallpaper screen saver? Maybe because it couldn't find the folder it was in??? I've never "saved" a game in my life. Idiot computer.

 

[RCA]

Win 11 updated on my laptop...PITA...anyway it wiped out every picture in my pictures folders...left a couple of the subfolders. I thought maybe I accidentally deleted them and so went to the recycle folder. Zero. Nothing. WTF? MS is sorry outfit. Not moved. Just disappeared.

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Back-up is far more complex than you think. Windows 11 has been architect3e to a very large extent for LARGE CORPORATIONS!!

What you want is something simple like Apple's Time Machine. Very simple, continuous local backups to a. separate disk which works very well as long as you give it plenty of storage. When it runs out of storage, it just starts overriding the old files.

But Windows 11? Well, all you have to do is accidentally hit "Empty Recycle Bin," and your backup is gone. You have to engineer a complex back-up system for Windows to catch all possible errors. Use File History rather than the Recycle Bin, use the 3-2-1 method, .....

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_95f4b369-e423-40e1-8a34-312e8f672cca

 

[JTip]

If you want to get technical, you can take out your old hard drive and put it in your new computer, giving you easy access to old photos.

With the help of youtube, you can easily connect your HDD/SSD within your tower. If you dont want to perform computer surgery, there are docking stations that you can plug in your laptop via usb and simply insert your old hard drive and access all your data from the old computer.

 

[norapp]

Win 11 updated on my laptop...PITA...anyway it wiped out every picture in my pictures folders...left a couple of the subfolders. I thought maybe I accidentally deleted them and so went to the recycle folder. Zero. Nothing. WTF? MS is sorry outfit. Not moved. Just disappeared.

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I thought it was me. I have had issues since I got it.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

The weird thing was that it moved the pictures but not the subfolders themselves. Then pulled a couple of subfolders with photos out of another folder.

Well, all you have to do is accidentally hit "Empty Recycle Bin," and your backup is gone.

I didn't hit empty and the files were not there. They were moved to a new folder marked pictures under the geoap folder under a "saved games" folder which I have now deleted

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

If you want to get technical, you can take out your old hard drive

It's a laptop I use in the house, and is a little over 1 year old.

 

[Sid Holderly]

This is one reason I run Windows in a virtual box on a linux machine. Pictures and compleded files saved outside of windows.

 

[cpursley]

Win 11 updated on my laptop...PITA...anyway it wiped out every picture in my pictures folders...left a couple of the subfolders. I thought maybe I accidentally deleted them and so went to the recycle folder. Zero. Nothing. WTF? MS is sorry outfit. Not moved. Just disappeared.

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Certainly you use dropbox, google drive or other similar backup services? I haven't lost a file in 15 years simply by installing a little utility and paying the yearly tax.