Hmmm, could there be a patch to help the novice, the unwary, or the forgetful (or those who do not know how to fix Rev)?
Just changed mine to " on revDeleteFolderXXX ...end revDeleteFolderXXX " in button revCommon in stack revLibraries...in case some other stack I get from somewhere tries to use revDeleteFolder...it is not there anymore. Of course, downloading or installing a new version would probably have revDeleteFolder again, so this is on my to do list for new installs/updates. Thanks for the heads up, Chipp. Jim Ault Las Vegas On 7/7/05 7:42 PM, "Chipp Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
