Kieran Mcgrady wrote: [...] > I am new to ruby and just followed your commands to uninstall mysql. > Thanks a lot. Now half my hard drive, all my documents, all my code is > gone.
That's awful, and I'm verry sorry to hear that. However, as an otherwise uninvolved bystander, I will point these facts out. * Rodrigo's advice was probably inaccurate. * One of his commands had what appears to be a typo making it into (basically) rm * , which clears the current directory. * This is a very basic error. Anyone (such as you) developing apps on a Unix system should be able to spot it immediately. * You were running commands that you didn't really understand, without a usable backup. * When things went wrong, you started calling names in a public forum. As I said above, I think it's awful that Rodrigo's mistake cost you so much, but I figured I'd point out what you could have done differently. Hopefully, this will prevent something similar from happening again. Good luck! Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
