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How about 'delete the folder if empty'? Why on earth didn't they think to do that?

• JohannesH 8y ago
  Even that could potentially be a breaking change, like if the folder was expected to be there by some application.
  • imtringued 8y ago
    That can be solved by updating the broken applications. Deleted data is never going to come back unless you have a backup.
    • mrec 8y ago
      Not all applications get updates.
      • rbanffy 8y ago
        "Save/Read X to/from the user documents folder" should be an OS-level function (on Windows, where you expect a desktop user to have a documents folder). Every time a program calls a deprecated API, the developer who signed the code should get an e-mail.
        • cesarb 8y ago
          The API wasn't deprecated when the code was written.
• Bartweiss 8y ago
  Yes, seriously. I would still think it's totally unjustifiable as a 'helpful' change, but at least it'd be causing problems like "hey, this install failed, how do I fix it?" rather than "where's all my stuff?" That, and I'm just a bit shocked that "the folder should be empty, so delete it" didn't just naturally make people think "obviously I should check if that's true first". Even if it's not a total fix, the failure to add that is it's own layer of screwup.