As if I didn’t already have enough reason to distrust the MS app store, it spontaneously uninstalled the kid’s copy of Minecraft. Which also deleted all of his local worlds.
Fortunately most of the persistent worlds he plays are either on Java Edition or on a realm, and we had a backup of the local Win10 worlds from a couple weeks ago, but WTF, MS – you don’t fucking DO that!
Best guess is it downloaded the latest update overnight, failed to install, and messed up the rollback.
When we were trying out the Minecraft beta a few weeks ago, we noticed there’s this weird thing where the MS store thinks he doesn’t own a copy of MC until you click on “Buy” at which point it realizes he does and starts downloading it. It could be a problem with that.
Or it could be a mismatch with Xbox Game Pass, which we just got.
Either way, though…
WTF…. apparently an interrupted update from the MS store translates to an uninstall
WHAT IDIOT CAME UP WITH THAT DESIGN
wait, that’s in the xbox forum…not clear whether that applies to microsoft store apps on windows 10 too, but given the ridiculous folder structures, I’d guess it’s probably the same thing under the hood.