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I believe you are undervaluing the consequences and likelihood of that bug. These are one set of steps to be effected by the bug. 1. Have a primary hardrive t

I believe you are undervaluing the consequences and likelihood of that bug. These are one set of steps to be effected by the bug. 1. Have a primary hardrive that is nearly full. 2. Get a second hard drive to store more pictures to your machine. 3. Change My pictures folder location to save on the new hard drive. (The least likely step but not super unlikely if your searching ways to stop your primary hard drive filling up) 4. Click no when asked if you want to copy everything across to the new location (ignoring it saying it's recommended (but only so you can see your older photos easier)) 5. Have the update roll out and delete all of the old photos you had. Losing those old photos (perhaps of passed loved ones) you may not have anywhere else can be heartbreaking. The fact that a very small percentage of users is effected does not change the fact that as we're talking about a massive user base, the absolute number of users is always going to be high.

ocdtrekkie 8y ago
This seems like an excellent time to point out that storing a single copy of irreplaceable data like photos is a really bad idea. I am certainly not undervaluing the consequences. Data loss is always huge, but I would say, comparatively, the likelihood of losing your data to this Windows bug pales in comparison to say, getting locked out of your Google Photos account and having no way to appeal. (I have a friend who is unable to get into a Google account with correspondence from a deceased family member.) I don't feel like Microsoft is even close to the industry worst in putting your data at risk because of this bug. And with regards to the massive user base, bear in mind, this was caught in the very early stages of a slow, phased rollout process, explicitly for this sort of reason. So it was a small percentage of a very small rollout to begin with.

ocdtrekkie 8y ago

This seems like an excellent time to point out that storing a single copy of irreplaceable data like photos is a really bad idea. I am certainly not undervaluing the consequences. Data loss is always huge, but I would say, comparatively, the likelihood of losing your data to this Windows bug pales in comparison to say, getting locked out of your Google Photos account and having no way to appeal. (I have a friend who is unable to get into a Google account with correspondence from a deceased family member.) I don't feel like Microsoft is even close to the industry worst in putting your data at risk because of this bug. And with regards to the massive user base, bear in mind, this was caught in the very early stages of a slow, phased rollout process, explicitly for this sort of reason. So it was a small percentage of a very small rollout to begin with.