Deleting Is Awesome
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Sadly, the dialog box went away too quickly to capture.
I selected a folder on my external hard drive and hit Delete. After a few seconds of churning, Windows informed me it had deleted 6.93 Terabytes. Which is really awesome since it's a 2 TB drive that's less than half full.
http://i.imgur.com/dPMgC4Y.png
If any of you suddenly find that you have files missing, sorry about that.
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Paging @Vault_Dweller, someone stole your avatar ...
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The real question though...
Can you undo the delete?
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No worries. Royalties are only $50,000/month. AND, if you pay before the end of the month, you get a secret avatar for free!
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The news article caught my eye and I thought of This Place, and in the list of Suggested Topics was this thread. So I thought it worth the Necro:
Fury after Adobe Creative Cloud deletes files
Adobe patches its Creative Cloud apps after people notice the software is deleting Mac users' files without warning.
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Something weird is going on there.
.bzvoldoesn’t get sorted before.DS_Store(a file that you can expect to find in the root of any OS X volume) by most Unix-based programs, since they tend to treat filenames as case-sensitive. Since Adobe loves to roll its own, you’d kind of expect the installer to talk to the BSD subsystem directly instead of going through the normal OS X channels, but it looks like it does do just that after all. And in any case, why is it asking for a directory listing that includes hidden files?
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Perhaps it deleted all the
.DS_Storefiles the first time it ran and is working on deleting the next 'first' file on subsequent iterations.
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If that’s what happened there would have been a much greater outcry than just from the users of a fairly obscure backup program, because it would also have deleted some or all of the following for many users:
[code].DocumentRevisions-V100
.PKInstallSandboxManager
.Spotlight-V100
.SymAVQSFile
.Trashes
.VolumeIcon.icns[/code]And most of them are directories with useful stuff in them, like documents being worked on in various applications and the system’s search database :)
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