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> frankly astonished that Windows would drop them into a temporary user profile without dire warnings about its transience.

windows didn't drop them into a temporary user profile; the user did that.

windows assumes that you know what you're doing when you move files around. everyone loses their minds when it doesn't make this assumption.



How did the user actively drop themselves into a temporary user profile?


You'd be amazed how people just drag'n'drop stuff they don't understand, and given that in Windows you're the "root" (Administrator) all the time, then you can guess how easy was that.


that's clearly not what the original line meant by "drop into".


the user dropped the FILES into a temporary user profile.

Windows tells you when it logs you into a temporary user profile. it doesn't do that silently.




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