“We have paused the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) for all users as we investigate isolated reports of users missing some files after updating.
If you have checked for updates and believe you have an issue, please contact us directly at +1-800-MICROSOFT or find a local number in your area https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4051701/global-customer-service-phone-numbers.
If you have access to a different PC, please contact us at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus/ (link will vary according to country of origin).
If you have manually downloaded the Windows 10 October 2018 Update installation media, please don’t install it and wait until new media is available.
We will provide an update when we resume rolling out the Windows 10 October 2018 Update to customers.”
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4464619/windows-10-update-history
Thanks sr downs!
You are probably fine if you haven’t encountered any issues so far. I used Windows update on my machine without any issues. People have to backup everything they care about. I have over 20 years of documents, music, pictures and videos that I would not want to lose.
Well said
Haven’t encountered any issues and the OS have been pretty stable so far. Wonder if it has to do with online/offline update. I mean I updated my Laptop from the ESD files and it worked like a charm. Also, I partitioned my disk, all my important files are located in a seprated partition, but I also relocated the main user folders to my storage partition (Ex: c:/user/music to d:/user/music) Dunno if this saved my files, but it seems the lesson is “Always perform a backup before any system update!”
I´d like to know if someone lost some data with the main user folders relocated to another partiton.
6 out of 7 PCs upgraded from 1803 to 1809, no prob whatsoever. Upgraded with the setup files residing on local harddisk and started setup from there. PC nr 7 will follow next week if I still don’t have any issues.
I always keep a full system image of the previous version (in my case a Norton Ghost image but any reliable tool should do) but I have not been considering going back.
I will keep an eye on the news regarding 1809 and probably do a clean reinstall after all issues seem to have been resolved. For now I’m sticking to my upgraded systems.
On a side note; as you can see I’m not a Windows hater, but I also use Linux. OpenSuSE Tumbleweed. A rolling distro. Given the really HUGE amount of changes such a rolling distro brings, including frequent changes to the kernel itself and to the graphics system, changes which hardly ever cause problems, I do find it fair to say that MS just has not got it’s stuff together compared to OST. I cannot comment on other distros from personal experience but those people I know who are running Mint Linux also seem pleased with the stability. MS could learn a lesson or two here.