Here's an interesting story:
Last night I was working on a 'reset prefs' handler which was to remove
all the files in a folder.
It looked something like:
on resetPrefs
put lMasterFolderPath & "/" & lProjectName into tFolderToDelete
revDeleteFolder tFolderToDelete
end resetPrefs
lMasterFolderPath and lProjectNames are script locals.
I also have a handler 'checkLocals' which I should've put at the top,
but I digress.
In anycase, after applying the script and running, of course the script
locals are now nulls and the revDeleteFolder contained only a single
"/", which apparently means: "Delete the entire route hard drive".
After running it and seeing the processor shoot to 100% and stay there,
I guessed something was wrong. I tried to quit it, but it's a shell
script and even the task manager wouldn't allow me to kill it.
By the time I was able to force shutdown my machine, most the entire
Windows partition was wasted. Fortunately, my Linux partition was still
good and I could access my Documents folder and grab most of the stuff
that mattered, but of course WinXP was completely hosed.
My lesson learned is NEVER, NEVER, NEVER use revDeleteFolder. I rewrote
the script to use 'the files' and delete each file individually.
Hope others can learn from my mistake!
best,
Chipp
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