windows 10 (October 2018 update) (version 1809) deleted all my files

Found this on zdnet may help in recovery, may not be 100%.   

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-october-update-delete-your-files-this-tool-might-recover-them/?ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=21178618591933410552478588346002

Setting win10 to defer updates 35 days if possible

A long time. I assume he had that much online storage and it didnt randomly just sucessfully upload everything he had in his user folders else it would have given an 'online storage full' msg

That would indeed be incredible for Robert Ziko!

I don't seem to have an online recycle bin, so no luck there, unless it's somewhere besides the "OneDrive" folder.

Definitely wasn't anything in my local Recycle Bin.

I have not heard a common thread, yet.

I upgraded a laptop w/ a simple single HD (worked fine). (Asus/AMD)

I then upgraded a desktop w/ several HDs, and an SSD. Various types of user data were on various drives - worked fine. (Asus/Intel)

I next upgraded a laptop w/ a single HD, with a small start-up partition. All of the files in My Documents were deleted. (HP/Intel)

None of these computers back up to the Cloud, except a random few small sub-directories, which were still intact. 

All of these computers were upgraded the same way, by asking Win10 to check for updates, which I do at least once a week. They all started automatically performing this upgrade when checking in this way.

I had backups of the laptop that was trashed that are only a day or two old. I was not able to recover them, using my backup software (Seagate Dashboard Agent) which I run every couple of weeks onto a USB portable drive. I have been able to locate some of them on the portable drive, and am manually copying them back to the HD on the trashed laptop. I still don't know the extent of what I lost, as this has taken me all day, so far, and it looks like a long weekend. This is a main work computer for me, so it's important to get it back up and running as soon as possible. 

I'm so frustrated with Microsoft right now, it's probably not appropriate for me to even say how I feel, on this Forum....let's just say I'm "beside myself with disbelief" that this could have occurred. A major manufacturer like this has a responsibility to their paying public to provide a better level of quality control than this. The bummer is, I just bought MS Office365 - you can be sure I wouldn't have, had this already occurred!

Stop updates ---

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/block-updates-windows-10-stopupdates10

http://greatis.com/blog/stopupdates10