This journal is just to warn people about the upcoming October update for Windows 10 and its via NatouMJSonic who posted about this on dA:

AVOID THE WINDOWS 10 OCTOBER 2018 UPDATE OR RISK LOSING ALL OF YOUR PERSONAL FILES

Posted Oct 5th, 2018

Many users are reporting massive data loss following the October 2018 Windows 10 update. Personal files are being deleted and hard drives are being corrupted in addition to several performance glitches. Users who have received the update are reporting all of their personal files such as documents, music, pictures, and videos being deleted following the update.

Some people have lost hundreds of gigabytes of data. These files are completely disappearing following the update – they do not wind up in the recycle bin, they are completely gone. Other users are reporting their entire hard drives or SSDs becoming corrupted, making rollback and recovery of said deleted files impossible.

In addition to the file deletion, devices with 6th generation Intel processors and newer are reporting awful battery life and CPU usage following the update.

Long story short, hold off on the October 2018 update for now. There are too many glitches and way too much to lose. If you attempt it,
BACK UP ALL OF YOUR FILES FIRST.

Here are also links to several news articles about the issues:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/compu.....r-2018-update/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasone...../#749411953e79
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-.....r-2018-update/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windo.....river-warning/

My advice for people are that you should go to Settings, then Update & Security followed by Windows Update where you can find the option to pause updates for up to 35 days, which should hopefully be more than enough for Microsoft to solve the more urgent glitches that's in the update.