Windows 10 October update now available

As it happens I found my missing files in C:/windows/users/yourusername

Not in Old. Not in Documents. Just here: Which made me very happy because close to a terabyte of files were missing including my books, (the pdf files, anyway, Kindle was still available) my movies, tv shows, and old time radio files, AND all my music files...mp3 and FLAC. Bought and ripped. They had just kind of wandered over here from This PC/Documents which was where they were before the update began

BarryG_691 thinks it has something to do with OneDrive and the new "Storage Sense" setting.

At least, he thinks that is why some people's files are disappearing.

He wrote this on another thread:

 "I am wondering if this issue has anything to do with the addition of OneDrive to the Storage Sense utility (Settings->System->Storage) in the October 2018 Update, which will delete locally-stored files that haven't been opened for a set number of days.  I am also wondering if those who lost files had Storage Sense turned on prior to the update, and those who did not lose any files had it turned off.  Thinking even further, could it be that the update process is turning it on by default with a value for the number of days which is causing the utility to remove files?"

I think that makes sense since I don't have the OneDrive app installed at all and I didn't lose files and, while he has the app, he didn't have "Storage Sense" on and he didn't lose any either.

What does everyone else here think?

StorageSense is certainly a possible culprit.  We've updated several systems from 1803 with no problems, but on all of them we have StorageSense turned OFF.  If it did get turned on, it would certainly wipe out LOADS of files that we don't want removed; if we wanted them removed, we'd remove them ourselves.  StorageSense sounds like a good idea until you think about what it can do to your system if you didn't configure it really carefully.  There are no doubt some people for whom it might work well.  But it is inherently a dangerous feature, especially if it can get turned on accidentally as a side effect of a routine update.

I've also had no issue and Storage Sense is off on all my PC

How about giving us more info. For example: if I continue to use Win10 with the October update will it continue to delete files???  How about giving Win10 Home version users the EASY ability to delay the install of ANY update as can be done with Pro and Enterprise versions and all previous versions of Windows. Allow us to find out if there are any bugs before updating.