Unacceptable authoritarian arrogance

Unacceptable authoritarian arrogance

Over the weekend I had a panic call from a client, a photographer who stores his images on a dedicated drive E:.
The name of the master folder on his system being "camera image dump". He has therein several sub-folders which bear the camera/model names. Anything from a camera he downloads to the appropriate folder. It is his way too transfer and sort preliminary images and know where they are. He has of course automated daily backups.

After another Windows update had been shoved down into his computer over the weekend he couldn't find thereafter his master folder and subsequently all folders therein. He panicked and called me. Not knowing what the situation was I told him to not touch anything. I'll be over come Monday.

Well, it turns out that in the usual infinite top-down authoritarian arrogance the Windows update reconfigured folder names to their preferred liking "pictures" as the folder as all subsequent folders are set and optimized to show pictures in explorer.

So I renamed his master folder back to its original name replaced the default icon with the user specific chosen one.
He was happy all was well but he was still a little upset how this happened without his knowledge.

My question now is how can I in the future prevent this audacious arrogance that Windows updates just rename everything the way they see fit and to their liking without giving a fly turd about what the user wants and needs or has configured!?

In other words, to prevent in the future of the [re]parsing of folder names to default window settings and names without the user input, knowledge or acknowledgment.

And you come here to this forum to avoid "Unacceptable authoritarian arrogance"?

Hmm... OK. Let the comments begin...

Berton said:

Since we only License the use of the software [per the license agreement everyone reads during install of Windows???] it has to be recognized that Version Upgrades and Build updates to those will change things, puts defaults back in place as designed.

Well well, sounds like you like authoritarian approaches to tell you what to do and how, when you can do it...

I hope for you that one day AI will not tell you what you can eat, when you can eat and how much exercise you need to do to justify what you eat other else your health benefits will be cut....

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...

Lastly can you answer the question how this can be prevented? That was the reason for my post in first place! I hope you don't just going to silently "weasel out the back door" but instead provide a working constructive solution!

3Bit said:

No, not about that! I'd like to find out how you can prevent this in the future. This guy's weekend was totally ruined and I can understand Hispanic having had similar encounters over the years where I stared at the screen where's my folder!?

Relax... it wasn't a criticism. It was just a mere observation.

Just a shame that this website doesn't have a 'Rant' forum for you and others to indulge yourselves..