Unacceptable authoritarian arrogance

I read all your replies, thank you.

I was able to re-create the situation and what happened is the following:
For example he has a folder called "1. Image Dump" where he downloads from his equipment all the images into an appropriate subfolder therein. Since he wants to have a quick view in file Explorer, the aforementioned folder and subsequent subfolders properties are set as "optimize this folder for: Pictures" and check "also apply this template to all subfolders"

What the update does is re-create i.e. the default "Pictures" folder respectively rename his "Image Dump" folder to "Pictures" folder as this folder has been set/customized [as mentioned before] for images. the same applies with other default folders such as "Downloads" etc.

Now you can imagine, you work, need to send an image and you looking for your "1. Image Dump" but it is gone! ("no panic on the Titanic she's unsinkable")

Try3 said:

By not using the C:\Users\%UserName%\Pictures folder whether relocated [and renamed] or not.
Create your own folders & use them instead.


Denis

that's not what it is. read my reply

x509 said:

Yet another powerful argument for not storing any user date on C. I have had separate storage drives for general files, media, and program install downloads, for like years now.

Nowhere have I remarked that he storing anything on C:
His data storage setup is a RAID10 (Drive I:) with cloud backup/duplication.

Callender said:

You can try:

"Can I disable automatic folder type discovery and keep special folder types, such as Pictures?"

WinSetView | Globally Set Explorer Folder Views

Read my reply, by the way he uses WinSetView.
The issue is if the folder customization is used. In his case "Pictures" so he can see thumbnails in Explorer.
After an update Windows renames his folder to the default "Pictures"!
I was able to re-create the issue.

What I find far more scary and disturbing is you're blanket acceptance and justification without questioning anything. Looking into the history books we can learn to what this can lead...

Don't bother reasoning with cucks who love taking it in the ass. 20 years ago in sixth grade I was screaming at a bunch of dumbshit adults, warning them about this trend of centralization of the then-free open net we all enjoyed. They called me a conspiracy theorist who belongs in a camp, they said only terrorists and pedophiles care about privacy.

Today they get to complain about all the stupid prizes they won, including their risk of being labeled an extremist for wanting even the thinnest rights to control their own product they paid for. Now we are meant to be friends or something. Instead, I am celebrating their loss of freedom and telling them to enjoy their misery. They reaped what they sowed.

Don't waste your breath on them, just rub their misery in their faces every day and remind them they earned every bit of it.

Back to your client's issue, it's an interesting one that i experienced on Windows 7 as well. I lost an entire irreplaceable set of photos (later recovered them with an undelete program) that were in the My Pictures directory and then a bunch of DB text files in the root of the drive. Complete mystery as to how they were deleted.

Like others suggested, tell your client to keep them in a thumb drive. Better yet, disable updates altogether in services.msc. I never turned on updates once in Windows 7 and it worked flawlessly for over a decade.