I switched to Windows 1809 yesterday after learning it was stable post-October fix. No files were lost in my documents folder, though the entire downloads folder disappeared. I don’t recall any critical items there, but if possible, I’d like a method to recover them without reverting to an older version. It seems safe, but I’m curious if others have faced similar problems. My Windows 7 installation remains intact on the C drive.
I just completed a 1803 patch and it removed all folders from the Windows.old folder on my C drive. The problem isn’t limited to 1809—did Windows update itself, possibly triggering this issue? Could a new protocol or update protocol be causing the change?
I just wondered if the new Windows update might have cleared my downloads folder by accident. It seems like a simple cleanup, nothing major, but I was curious if it could have removed other files too. I didn’t check any options and used the older version of disk cleaning—it automatically checked the downloads folder and didn’t find anything there before. I only realized it was an option after reading an article about it.