Aliens ate my Windows user profile
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So I logged in yesterday and got a message saying that I had been logged in with a temporary profile. :wtf: ... did a bit of Googling and came up with a lot of sites that basically said, save the profile data and then delete the registry key associated with it, and log in again (creating a new profile). Looked under the users directory and my profile was almost completely gone. Just two or three empty directories left. :wtf: and double :wtf:. Fortunately I never save any data in My Documents (for this very reason; I don't trust the OS to preserve it), and everything is on another drive. However all settings and a few files placed temporarily on the desktop are gone. What a PITA. Happened on Windows 10. If you have anything valuable in your profile directory, get it out now.
I know how to fix it easily. PM me and tomorrow I will send you the link to what fixes it.
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I know how to fix it easily. PM me and tomorrow I will send you the link to what fixes it.
Is it the update KB10Linux237?
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I know how to fix it easily. PM me and tomorrow I will send you the link to what fixes it.
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Maybe it's warez. I think that Windows 10 will be usable only with a huge amount of cracks, even on licensed copies.
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So I logged in yesterday and got a message saying that I had been logged in with a temporary profile. :wtf: ... did a bit of Googling and came up with a lot of sites that basically said, save the profile data and then delete the registry key associated with it, and log in again (creating a new profile). Looked under the users directory and my profile was almost completely gone. Just two or three empty directories left. :wtf: and double :wtf:. Fortunately I never save any data in My Documents (for this very reason; I don't trust the OS to preserve it), and everything is on another drive. However all settings and a few files placed temporarily on the desktop are gone. What a PITA. Happened on Windows 10. If you have anything valuable in your profile directory, get it out now.
Sanity checks. 0) Did you try taking ownership of your old profile? By default permissions will mean that most of it won't be visible to your new account (ie the temp profile). 1) What happened to your backup that you couldn't restore from that instead?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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So I logged in yesterday and got a message saying that I had been logged in with a temporary profile. :wtf: ... did a bit of Googling and came up with a lot of sites that basically said, save the profile data and then delete the registry key associated with it, and log in again (creating a new profile). Looked under the users directory and my profile was almost completely gone. Just two or three empty directories left. :wtf: and double :wtf:. Fortunately I never save any data in My Documents (for this very reason; I don't trust the OS to preserve it), and everything is on another drive. However all settings and a few files placed temporarily on the desktop are gone. What a PITA. Happened on Windows 10. If you have anything valuable in your profile directory, get it out now.
Did you solve your problem? You can restore to earlier point using restore command rstrui if you are logged in as administrator or try RegEdit fix as described in [Link 1] or [Link 2]
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Did you solve your problem? You can restore to earlier point using restore command rstrui if you are logged in as administrator or try RegEdit fix as described in [Link 1] or [Link 2]
// ♫ 99 little bugs in the code, // 99 bugs in the code // We fix a bug, compile it again // 101 little bugs in the code ♫
Tell your manager, while you code: "good, cheap or fast: pick two. "
Yeah, that's the one. The one with the profile list It's printed out at my office in our hot bug folder. YOU MUST DO IT IN SAFE MODE - at least in 7 or you won't see the registry keys you are after.
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So I logged in yesterday and got a message saying that I had been logged in with a temporary profile. :wtf: ... did a bit of Googling and came up with a lot of sites that basically said, save the profile data and then delete the registry key associated with it, and log in again (creating a new profile). Looked under the users directory and my profile was almost completely gone. Just two or three empty directories left. :wtf: and double :wtf:. Fortunately I never save any data in My Documents (for this very reason; I don't trust the OS to preserve it), and everything is on another drive. However all settings and a few files placed temporarily on the desktop are gone. What a PITA. Happened on Windows 10. If you have anything valuable in your profile directory, get it out now.
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Sanity checks. 0) Did you try taking ownership of your old profile? By default permissions will mean that most of it won't be visible to your new account (ie the temp profile). 1) What happened to your backup that you couldn't restore from that instead?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Indivara wrote:
Happened on Windows 10. If you have anything valuable in your profile directory, get it out now
Windows 10 may have many faults, but this one isn't unique to it. I've had people come to me with this particular problem since the XP days.
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- Yes. There was no profile left, all the files were gone. 1) Backup? What backup? :) Seriously though, my data was already on a different drive (which is backed up), the system drive wasn't backed up.
Indivara wrote:
- Backup? What backup? :)
The half you forgot about obviously....
Indivara wrote:
Seriously though, my data was already on a different drive (which is backed up), the system drive wasn't backed up.
Reinstalling and reconfiguring all of my software is the hardest part of switching OS installs. Any backup missing that stuff is woefully incomplete, and between the registry, %program data%, %appdata%, and all the random idiotic places halfbaked software decide to hide their stuff backing up the whole drive is the only way to make sure you've got everything.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt