Microsoft releases an update for Windows 10 that this time "is good" and does not delete personal files

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It was the talk of last week in the technological world. Microsoft had released the Windows 10 October 2018 Update and negative reviews had started popping up online Issues with the update that turned the My Documents folder into a wasteland had kicked off the alarm bell. All documents mysteriously disappeared."

We have already seen a possible solution and although from Redmond they assure and assured that this failure only affected a small number of users, it It is true that it was there.More or less those affected existed and even if it was a low percentage, if we think about the number of computers that could be updated, the final figure was not to be taken lightly. That forced the suspension of the rollout of Windows 10 October 2018 Update until now.

And it is that the American brand already communicated yesterday that it was working to solve the failure and that in the meantime it recommended not to touch the equipment that presented problems. To put an end to the misadventure of those interested who want to update their equipment, Microsoft has re-released the update but now, corrected

In this revision of the update they have solved the problem and incidentally and to leave users calm, they have explained what was the reason that caused this important failure .

The source of the problem was the KFR or Known Folder Redirection function. This is responsible for redirecting the default locations of certain Windows folders to other locations.

A feature that caused issues in Windows 10 April 2018 Update generating empty or duplicate folders. This caused the fall update to add code to remove these empty folders, a workaround that caused the bug we're talking about

If in your case you have not yet updated to version 1809 of Windows 10, now you can do it without problem or at least with the assurance that this bug has been correctedIf, on the contrary, you are one of those affected, Microsoft advises (as we discussed yesterday) that you contact support through one of the channels enabled to receive help.

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