Hi Chipp and others who suggested many ideas,
First, Chipp, I really feel for you in your sorrow.
One day or another, we have all known that one second thing able to
cause havoc... and all the hours later to put the things right.
Second, I think that a command which deletes a folder *has to* delete
a folder.
It's us who have to pay attention to a possible devastation.
As for me, I want Rev powerful.
May be, some additional statement could warn when the directory is a
root directory but I assume that runRev guys would answer "that's
your problem..." and they would be right.
My two cents.
Le 8 juil. 05 à 04:42, Chipp Walters a écrit :
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.
Best Regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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