Content issue(?) deleted my whole desktop

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(This happened with Pipeline Tool 3.6.0.1625)

Hello,

I’m not sure if this is a bug or intended behaviour, but it sure fooled me!
This is what happened:

  1. For some easier access I decided to make a shortcut to the content file, and placed the shortcut on my desktop.

  2. Then I wanted to replace a content item with a newer version of the file.

  3. It defaulted to adding a link, instead of adding/replacing the file. I just pressed OK without seeing it.

  4. Then it added a … folder and a Desktop folder, probably because of some working/current directory bug because I opened from shortcut?

  5. With my super smart brain, I thought “Oh that’s just a virtual folder item, I can delete that”

  6. Pipeline tool freezes, and I see my desktop slowly clear in the background

Here’s a reconstruction, without actually deleting the … folder because I don’t want to delete it all again

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(Deleted comment contained same gif as above, if anyone is curious)

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Yeah, this happened to me too. Luckily I had a fresh backup of all of my code or I would have lost everything…

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Yea I was also lucky that I had my code somewhere else, so I lost ~10 lines of code maybe. Other files got lost though, but I can easily recreate them as they weren’t that much work.

This why we backup :smiley:

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This issue is logged on GitHub. This really needs to be fixed.

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Cannot see image in first post, but what exactly was deleted? and why? does this affect the default methods?

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This bug was fixed in develop branch several weeks ago.

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My whole project was deleted today. Most people use v3.6. I think this problem should be written into the document now.

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Has anyone considered using source control when developing their applications? It really can be a life-saver. get a GitHub account or use something like Mercurial for local source control…

:slight_smile:

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The danger is it will delete any file system if you add the content as a link from some place else.
Not everything is controlled by source control usually. If you use git, the local .git folder may also be deleted.

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Aside from the actual bugfix, shouldn’t the content manager delete to the recycling bin? Like in VS, if you delete a file you can pull it out of the recycling bin or even just open an explorer window and hit Ctrl+Z.

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I also keep my image files in a separate project folder from which I add them to the content-pipeline folder. This way, if anything goes wrong, I always have the original files…

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This PR has already been merged to fix the issue. Update to a develop version if possible to fix this behavior with the pipeline. The 3.7 release will also have this fix in.