Originally Posted by
Simon Barden
MS halted the Win 10 October update very quickly because of the problem, so any updates you get won't be the one that caused the file loss. I'm not sure how many people actually lost files, as a friend who tends to get the updates first as a beta tester thought he had lost almost everything on his hard drive, when in fact the update seemed to have created and logged him in to another user account with the same name. When he eventually realised and logged in to his normal account, then everything was fine again.