Warning for switching rings, when says no update. I had to refresh both upwards and downwards.

So as I understand it, usually upward ring movements dont need a data refresh, and downward movements are ok providing it says no update instead of saying data refresh needed.

Yesterday, On a standard update with no ring movement, on delta, it downloaded a small update, which seemed to go ok, but as soon as the dash loaded and it said welcome, it then pushed a 4 gig update, which was mandated.

After this 4 gig update was installed, I was presented with a multi lingual welcome screen, and all my accounts were gone, lost all media captures, console settings, the only things still there was basically downloaded games. This was no ring movement, delta -> delta

After this I checked the insider app, and omega was finally showing the new omega ring version, which matched both beta and delta, I then did a downward ring movement, it didnt say data refresh required, then the same thing happened, a small update, but then after the reboot, after the welcome message, a forced 4 gig update popped up, and was another user/settings wipe.

I then thought for science let me test moving back up to Delta, the insider app said no update, and it moved without downloading anything. But again after console reboot, a mandated 4 gig popup appeared, which wiped user/settings.

Finally moved back to Omega which is where I am now, and the same thing.

All 3 builds at the time I did this were the exact same build on insiders, and they all said no update.

So this is warning to others you might hit the same issue.

I checked all my games I played recently, the last play time was still stored on my profile, and I can see oblivion remastered lost 3 days worth of saves, one game wonderboy lost all saves, but luckily others seem to be ok after a cloud sync.

I did consider leaving the program altogether, as I feel with alpha being a complete closed shop at this point, and omega is basically the same as beta, but I will continue to report bugs, and I can only do that on insider, so have decided to just leave it on Omega without more movement between the 3 rings.

I hope this post isnt deleted as I think the warning is important.

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