On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 12:04:30AM -0000, Dave Hooper wrote: > Sounds like exactly the same thing the guy on Support reported today (you > know, the guy that Matt Toseland shot down with "READ THE FUCKING > DOCUMENTATION YOU FUCKING MORON", which I thought was a little harsh). So was the guy. Sorry. > > As he stated, on installation, Freenet clears out the contents of the store > directory. He had done the same thing, set the store directory to a > pre-existing, non-empty folder on his Window box. His wording was confused > (he gave the impression Freenet had moved or renamed the contents of the > folder which had caused the user in question to delete them all by > accident). Yeah, I suppose we should rerelease. It can be fixed by removing the backwards-compatible-to-single-dir-nativefsdirectory code. Then it will only wipe files in the numbered subdirs that shouldn't be there. We should perhaps put the temp files in the temp dir now that we have one, and not delete anything anywhere else. > > But rather it seems that either Freenet, or the winstaller, cheerily nukes > the entire directory before setting up shop. Imagine the complaints if the > user wants to put their datastore in the root of C:\ It doesn't recurse. > > Hahahahaha. Oh god. > > d > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ian Clarke" <ian at freenetproject.org> > To: <devl at freenetproject.org> > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:34 PM > Subject: [freenet-dev] Fwd: Re: Freenet 0.5 > > > > A bug? > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Alex Volkmer <alexander_volkmer at web.de> > > ----- > > > > From: "Alex Volkmer" <alexander_volkmer at web.de> > > To: "Ian Clarke" <ian at freenetproject.org> > > Subject: Re: Freenet 0.5 > > > > Hallo again, > > > > in my case, this temp-folder is not a regulary temp-folder. I always use > an > > ordinary folder as temporary folder. It?s only named "Temp". So my Win2K > > hasn?t an possibilitys to clean this folder. After sending you my first > > email I run some test with Freenet 0.5. I created six different folders: > two > > on my workstation, two on my mainserver and another two on my NAS. Each > > folder contains 150 MB of different testfiles. I repeated the installation > > and configuration of Freenet 0.5, with telling Freenet to use the new > > folders as temp-directorys. In all five tests each time the same result. > The > > testfiles get lost and are not retrieveable. > > > > So may be it?s my network witch is giving up or the is a subroutine in > > Freenet that cause that problem. > > > > Best regards > > > > Alex V. > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ian Clarke" <ian at freenetproject.org> > > To: "Alex Volkmer" <alexander_volkmer at web.de> > > Cc: <steven at freenetproject.org> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:35 PM > > Subject: Re: Freenet 0.5 > > > > > > > Well, I am very sorry to hear that, but I really don't think it is our > > > fault. A temp folder is - by nature - somewhere you store temporary > > > files, and your operating system, in this case - Windows, is liable to > > > delete files in the temp folder when it needs more space. > > > > > > Freenet probably filled up your temp folder, causing Windows to delete > > > your old files. Freenet did nothing improper in this regard, and I > > > suspect that any other program which requires a lot of disk-space > > > could have had a similar effect. > > > > > > My advice to avoid this type of thing again is: > > > 1) Don't put important files in your temporary folder > > > 2) Back up your hard disk regularly > > > > > > Again, I am sorry to hear of this inconvenience. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > Ian. > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:14:50PM +0100, Alex Volkmer wrote: > > > > Good evening, > > > > > > > > Stephen Starr was so kind to give me your emailadress. I?ve mailed > > > him because i have a little problem with your Freenet 0.5. About an > > > hour ago I installed that little sucker. After installation it asked > > > for a temp-folder. So I gae it my main temp-folder on my NAS-Server. > > > To bad for me that this folder contains(-ed) more than 60 GB of data > > > of different kinds. Because after telling Freenet 0.5 to use this > > > folder, it deleted ALL of this 60 GB. All data gone. And with it over > > > 6 months of work (Models in 3D-Studio Max, movies (my hole Babylon > > > 5-Collection, almost all episodes), music, scripts etc.). And with > > > gone I really mean gone. Many attempts to retrieve this data failed. > > > > > > > > So my question is: How the hell could this happen ??? Any idea ??? > > > > > > > > Best regards > > > > > > > > Alex V. > > > > > > -- > > > Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] > > > Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi > > > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ > > > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > > -- > > Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] > > Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi > > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devl mailing list > > devl at freenetproject.org > > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > > > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > devl at freenetproject.org > http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl >
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