I got burned by this too, though I was fortunate not to have lost as much as others have here. Jesus Christ, this app is the software equivalent of Happy Fun Ball. Thank God it doesn't let you select fixed disks.
* Hitting "Format" when a partition-device is selected should only format the partition. (I wanted to just create a new filesystem instead of manually deleting the files of the old Ubuntu CD-ROM. Reasonable, yes?) * Hitting "Format" when a whole-disk-device containing multiple partitions is selected should prompt that the existing partition table will be wiped. (Programs that modify partition tables, as standard convention, use *extreme caution* and extensive user prompting so that they do not accidentally destroy data. We, as users, have come to expect this, because we have a lot of time/effort/money invested in our data and will shy away from anything that puts it at undue risk. Not only does this program flagrantly violate that user expectation and need to be fixed, whoever was responsible for that aspect of the design needs to be retrained. If you're a developer, you DO NOT write programs like this, unless you're a rank amateur, or you have malicious intent. No one who thinks an app with this behavior is acceptable should have commit access to Canonical repositories.) * Hitting "Format" when an existing filesystem is detected should prompt that DATA WILL BE DESTROYED, just as the regular installer already does when partitioning/formatting disks (see Bug #443330, and the above editorial). evgheni, why is this bug not assigned to usb-creator-hackers? -- Should warn that formatting will erase the entire contents of the device (all partitions). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446891 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
