MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: A moment of silence

> I slipped up a couple weeks ago using the Windows 10 disk cleanup app. I foolishly
> elected to include the "Downloaded files" location because it showed that multiple
> gigabytes of space would be freed up. It wasn't until a couple hours later that I
> realized everything in my Downloads folder was purged and the handful of tools I
> tried to use to recover the contents were unsuccessful.
>

I *really* hope somebody at Microsoft lost their job over that.

It seems to be one of the things people have complained most about in Windows 10, I guess it slipped in with a feature update (and for some reason, ended up 'on' by default for some automatic cleanup operations for some people)

It's absolutely destroyed trust in any of the 'named' folders, and even caused problems for anybody who just tick everything thinking it means (as it always did in the past) that only automatically created system files / folders etc. and actual things assigned as 'temp' or 'junk' get cleaned up. It's at the very least a *terrible* UX choice. Quietly slipping an incredibly destructive operation among harmless ones isn't something that should pass even the first level of QA or even design process.

It's a bad, bad design and contributing to the number of people who actually think W10 is the new incarnation of Vista.