[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2012-10-10 Thread Joe Carey
Photorec is indeed recovering all the photos, thanks!  Pain in the ass
to sort it all, but better than losing it.

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2012-10-10 Thread Michał Gołębiowski
While I agree that this bug is severe, losing person's most important
data is the fault of this person itself. It is irresponsible beyond
imagination to keep all such important things just in one place. There
are loads of things that could happen to that drive beyond formatting it
by mistake; most of all, drives just brake from time to time. Keeping
two copies is an absolute minimum and I personally tend to keep my
really most important data at least in 3 places, one of which is not the
drive I keep at home.

It amazes me that so many people are still making this very same huge
mistake.

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2012-10-10 Thread David D Lowe
This is a bug tracker, folks. Comments #29, #30, #31, #32, #33 and #34
don't belong here, they're just spam wasting valuable developer time.

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2012-10-09 Thread Joe Carey
I lost an entire 500GB hard drive because of this.  All my photos from
since I moved to Japan, my wedding, my first born child are gone.
Testdisk hasn't found anything.  I feel like crying.  If anyone reads
this please help.  joeca...@gmail.com

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2012-10-09 Thread David D Lowe
Hello Joe. I really feel for you. Losing personal memories like that can
be heart-wrenching. There may be ways to recover your data, although
there are no guarantees (unless you have a back-up). If I were you, I
would seek help on any of the official or community support channels of
Ubuntu.

http://www.ubuntu.com/support

I would recommend ubuntuforums.org, askubuntu.com and the #ubuntu IRC
channel.

Since this bug has been fixed in the latest versions of USB Startup Disk
Creator, you're unlikely to find help in this bug tracker.

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2012-10-09 Thread Joe Carey
I've been looking at some options.
I've since discovered that the files are indeed there, but recovery will take 
hours and hours and probably the purchase of another external hard drive.   I 
was able to lift a few mp3s out using photorec and I'm sure I can get the rest, 
minus the filenames that is.  So, for music it might mean downloading 
everything.  And with the new draconian law in Japan... well.  We'll see.  For 
convenience sake, I have a recovery program running off my old xp based laptop. 
At the very least, I know the data is there.

I appreciate your kind words.

-Joe

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-04-05 Thread Laurens
On updated lucid I experienced that the following part of this bug was not 
fixed:
usb-creator formats the whole disk instead of one partition.
This is mentioned in comment #12 as well in the following bug reports which 
were marked as duplicates:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446891
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533663
And in this one I marked some code which might be the source of the problem:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484252

** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
   Status: Fix Released = Confirmed

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-04-05 Thread Roderick B. Greening
** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed = Fix Released

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-04-05 Thread Roderick B. Greening
Laurens, Changing back to fix released as the original bug report was
for issuing a warning dialog, which has been corrected.

Bug #484252 should not be a duplicate of this (which I have corrected).
Please continue your reporting on that other bug.

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-03-24 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package usb-creator - 0.2.19

---
usb-creator (0.2.19) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Don't force select a source unless the list is empty.
  * Reverse the order of the populating ISOs and command line option --iso
again so that --iso always trumps others.
  * Hide the source_vbox again when --iso is used.

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Get rid of the needs-format warning for now.  It was always shown
for parent block devices and the confusing resulting from that was
quite bad.
  * Rework partition mounting so that it doesn't fail if the partition
was mounted between dbus calls.
  * Somewhat fix progress reporting.
  * Don't write usb-creator-helper's log to /root (LP: #461064).
  * Provide a format confirmation dialog (LP: #443330).
  * Error out of formatting if we're unable to unmount all of the
partitions (LP: #507420).
  * Provide feedback via a spinning cursor and disabled format button
while formatting (LP: #457737).
  * Only call gtk.main_quit if we're in a mainloop.
  * Don't try to unmount a partition in usb-creator-helper unless it
actually is mounted.
  * Unmount the partition at the end of install using
usb-creator-helper rather than umount as a regular user.
  * Handle device changes by synthesizing a remove and add.
  * Pulse the progress bar while flushing changes to disk.
  * Pulse when installing the bootloader.
 -- Evan Dandrea ev...@ubuntu.com   Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:34:35 +

** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-03-16 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:usb-creator

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-03-10 Thread Casper Ti. Vector
Hello, I had also met this bug and had lost my valuable data.

As I think (Perhaps not precisely... Forgive my poor English ;) ), the 
discussion above indicates that till now the program will format the WHOLE DISK 
into one partition. However, we can choose ont partition on the disk (and of 
course not click the horrible Format button) and make it a bootable partition 
with ubuntu within it; on the other hand, tools such as gparted can easily 
format ONLY ONE SELECTED PARTITION without effecting other partitions, and I 
think it might be not difficult to implement a similar feature in usb-creator.
Therefore, can we make usb-creator able to format only one partition after 
we click the Format button? It must be very nice to all users of usb-creator.

Hope to be helping, thanks :)

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-25 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Not only should the labels be shown, however; the dialog should also
indicate that each one is a label (perhaps even being more specific
with filesystem label). It wasn't clear what the identifiers were in
dialog 2---especially Kingston, which struck me as a USB device name.

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-21 Thread komputes
@Daniel, yeah, I'm not that great at UI design, this is basically my starting 
point playing around with glade dialog presets. Not even sure that this is 
compatible with the current usb-creator project, just wantd to make a mock up.
 
I agree with you:
+1 on merging 1/2 ito a single screen
+1 on disk type icon
+0 for the labels, this is already done in image 2 (DiskLabel, 
AwesomenessDrive, Kingston)

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-20 Thread komputes
I am not a graphical interface designer but this is a simple mock up of
what I had in mind, please comment.

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-20 Thread komputes

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-20 Thread komputes

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-20 Thread komputes

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-20 Thread Daniel Richard G.
So, you're thinking of a wizard-type approach.

I think dialogs 1 and 2 should be merged; having them separate seems
like just an excuse to require another click. I like dialog 3b better
than 3a, but then that means you're combining the format and install
operations (which wouldn't be a bad idea, just a little out of scope
here).

Dialog 1 and/or 2 should additionally show the device form factor (e.g.
Secure Digital flash memory card) along with a large icon, as well as
the USB device name (e.g. JD Firefly) and the size of the device as a
whole. For each partition, show the label (if present), the size, the
and the filesystem type and/or partition type. In other words, show as
much as possible about the disk that is about to get wiped!

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-19 Thread Laurens
See also 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484252
Comment #5
(Format the *entire* drive instead of partition.)
Three birds with one stone ;)

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-18 Thread Sebastien Lumineau
Moreover, I had several partitions on my usb drive. I selected the one I
wanted to install on. Then I clicked the format button thinking it would
format the selected partition. But it formatted the entire drive ! An
alert saying Caution, this will format the *entire* drive /dev/sdb1
would have certainly saved me. Formatting the selected partition only
should be the right thing to do though (with an alert popup too).

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-18 Thread David D Lowe
Hi komputes, I think I could do that, I just can't seem to think of a
good way to input the label of the new partition. Should a new dialog be
displayed just for that? Any good designers here?

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Richard G.
If there's a separate dialog, it could give the warning/confirmation
people have been asking for, in addition to the widget for entering the
new label. Two birds with one stone.

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-13 Thread komputes
Hi Daniel,

By drive name I mean the name of the drive that (should) show up when
you pop it in. This is a recognizable human readablename such as My
Passport or AwesomenessDrive. When using FAT this is achieved in the
back end using sudo mlabel -i device ::label

ex.
$ sudo mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 ::AwesomenessDrive

The reason I think any formating tool should request a drive name/label
is because we currently mount unlabeled drives to something like ex.
(FAT32) /media/F8EB-024G or (ext3)
/media/4532f2cd-0110-4dd5-a5d2-2b4d547d84e5. This was introduced in
Karmic and is explained in detail in Bug #390304.

Therefore it is good practice that *any* tool which can format a disk,
ask for a drive/partition label. This adds to security and intuitiveness
by removing the stress brought on bu device paths. The standard response
from a user being: Uh, well... I don't know, not too sure, which drive
i should format, /dev/sd Very unsafe and leads to data loss.

There is no reason, to show an End User License Agreement when formating
a disk. A confirmation pop-up window with the following informative
warning should be sufficient (I have expanded my previous suggestion):

Please make sure you have backed up all data off this drive.
$DEVICEPATH $CURRENTLABEL (on $CURRENTMOUNTPOINT/Not mounted) will be
formatted to $NEWLABEL.

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-13 Thread Daniel Richard G.
Oh, okay, so drive name and label are really synonyms. (Label
would be the better term... by drive name, I thought you might have
been referring to the lsusb device name. Besides, this is what would
appear in /dev/disk/by-label/, or be used in e.g. root=LABEL=home)

I agree that encouraging the use of labels is a good idea; device nodes
and UUIDs tend to look all the same after a while. But I'd like to make
sure you don't have the assumption that, when formatting an existing
filesystem, that the label will necessarily be different. With usb-
creator, my original intention had been to format the partition as a
quicker alternative to deleting all the files therein, in any event
keeping the same label and filesystem type.

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-13 Thread David D Lowe
Hi. I'm the author of the proposed patch in lp:~flimm/usb-creator/warn-
before-format

When the user tries to format a drive with just one partition on it,
this message would be displayed:

Formatting the drive will erase it in its entirety.
Make a backup copy of any valuable data on $GNOME_PARTITION_NAME 
(/dev/devicename) before continuing.
   |Cancel|  |Format entire drive|

When the user tries to format a drive with several partitions on it,
this message would be displayed:

Formatting the drive will erase it in its entirety.
Make a backup copy of any valuable data on $GNOME_DRIVE_NAME (/dev/devicename) 
before continuing.
The following partitions will be deleted:
  /dev/devicename  LABEL1
  /dev/devicename  LABEL2 (etc)
   |Cancel|  |Format entire drive|

I haven't added the name of the new partition because I don't think USB
creator labels the new partition. Correct me if I am wrong.

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-13 Thread komputes
That's right, the technical term is Label (assigned to a partition).

The user can name the partition as they would like, even the same name,
or no name.

Formatting the partition instead of deleting the file - Yes, this need
to be standardized take a look at Bug# 296160 in which a standard
(foolproof) way of formatting is being requested to avoid issues.

Cheers!

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-13 Thread komputes
Hi David, thank you so much for the proposed changes. usb-creator does
not name a drive when it formats it (yet). This would be an added
feature to avoid confusion.

ex. if you have a label on the disk, it will be gone when formatting it.
Any program offering to format should allow the user to enter an
optional label.

If it's not too complicated do you think you could implement this
feature as well?

Thanks again for all your help!

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-12 Thread komputes
We need to issue at least one warning before performing any destructive
operations. This high priority bug causes accidental data loss and
should be fixed for Lucid.

Ideally, when warning that a device will be formatted, we need to
present the Current Drive Name/Label, and request a New Name/Label and
warn Please make sure you have backed up all data off this drive.
$CURRENTNAME will be formatted to $NEWNAME.

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-12 Thread komputes
It seems lp:~flimm/usb-creator/warn-before-format was added as a fix to
this issue. Evan, can you review this proposed change. Thank you.

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-12 Thread Daniel Richard G.
I'm not sure about requesting a new drive name / label---what exactly do
you mean by drive name, anyway?---but at least a dialog that can't be
clicked through unthinkingly/accidentally would be good. Maybe something
like an EULA dialog, where you have the dialog text, an appropriately-
labeled checkbox, and a Format button that is greyed out until the
checkbox is marked.

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-11 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
** Branch linked: lp:~flimm/usb-creator/warn-before-format

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2010-01-10 Thread Jakob
Yes this is a problem! I too accidently formatted my removable
harddrive. Right now it's a bit to easy to do...

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[Bug 443330] Re: USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

2009-12-23 Thread komputes
** Summary changed:

- USB Creator doesnt ask before formatting disks
+ USB Creator does not warn or ask user to confirm before formatting disks

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