Updated to 1903 but 'user'.000 now created and holds all my user files

Anonymous
2019-07-06T13:04:34+00:00

Hi, as per the title. All my pre-update User files are now in a folder with ".000" added to the name. I've already run into problems with programs using the non .000 path e.g. Dropbox. Is there an easy fix for this?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-05-13T16:52:55+00:00

    I tried everything, spend hours on the phone with MS. We would update and roll back. What finally worked was to uninstall Zune. Then the update worked without creating a problem with Outlook. MS no longer makes Zune available, but I was able to find an install on the Internet and reinstalled Zune.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-13T16:51:50+00:00

    I tried everything, spend hours on the phone with MS. We would update and roll back. What finally worked was to uninstall Zune. Then the update worked without creating a problem with Outlook. MS no longer makes Zune available, but I was able to find an install on the Internet and reinstalled Zune.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-13T14:39:41+00:00

    Greetings to all!

    I was wondering...

    Is this a joke?

    It seems that every time I get a major update of Windows 10, something bad happens.

    Now my Outlook won't work, because windows for some reason had to move my files to a username.000 folder.

    Why would you release a buggy update worldwide if someone has posted and logged this particular bug HALF A YEAR AGO?

    Everybody uses your OS, is there no one in your organisation that would check updates for bugs and problems?

    And now I have to, what:

    • Create a new profile?
    • Copy all my data? (Hopefully some silent config doesn't delete my temp file by then)
    • Reconfigure registry keys which allow secret silent installs of dumb apps I don't want using the bandwidth I pay for?
    • Reset all default listening and logging preferences so Microsoft can't harvest ALL of my data? Wink wink*
    • Probably some more little 5-minute actions down the line?

    5 minutes on 5 minutes and an hour has gone by.

    Last year I was publicly wondering how for the love of everything that is sacred does this OS still not have an option to manually select a Bluetooth driver. Dear developers, if there is a one in a million chance that the "automatic" option won't work, please give us a manual option. Some of us dabble in precision and things like this irritate the hell out of us.

    Now, is there a patch which I can run that would fix this C:\Users[username].000 problem or do I have to use my scarce unassigned work hours to do it it myself?

    Again, half a year has gone by since users have alerted Microsoft of this problem.

    Thank you for your help, and please excuse my frustration.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-24T14:04:14+00:00

    AMEN!!!

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