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    I believe Ctrl+Z in Windows was a joke. Always has been. "Glad" to hear Win11 continues the tradition. Seriously I'm sorry for your loss. Good luck with recovery.
    – Kamil Maciorowski
    Commented Jan 2, 2023 at 10:20
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    I can't believe windows has undo in file manager operations. That's totally insane.
    – akostadinov
    Commented Jan 3, 2023 at 10:51
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    @KamilMaciorowski - I just tested Win10 - it also will not allow the user to Undo a 'move' operation if the original disk is no longer present. In fact it will wait until you re-mount the disk, then complete, which is far more than I had expected based on historic behaviour. How the OP managed to do this is really starting to puzzle me now :\
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Jan 3, 2023 at 11:24
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    "Who is responsible" - sadly, at the end of the day, the answer is you. YOU have to take responsibility for your data. You can't try to blame mishaps on anyone. Software has bugs in, it's up to you to ensure that the impact of them is minimal to you.
    – UKMonkey
    Commented Jan 3, 2023 at 15:05
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    @akostadinov I can't believe you can't see a reason to offer Undo for file management operations. Have you really never messed up when moving files around? (Deleting to trash is an obvious mini-Undo for deletes, why not also offer Undo for copies, renames, moves, and directory creation?)
    – TooTea
    Commented Jan 3, 2023 at 19:00