Fetch Softworks

Deleting Upwards (2 posts)

• Started 21 years ago by sescha
• Latest reply 21 years ago from Jim Matthews

• sescha Member

  Hi,

  firstly, thanks for enhancing fetch to its current state; as a fetch user for more than three years I am very happy with the current release and the fact that it is so well supported.

  I recently wanted to delete all files within one directory of a LINUX server. I hit command-A to include all files and selected "delete". My selection included the leading directory entries "." and ".."

  Boy, was I happy that I had a recent server backup when fetch happily deleted everything up to the document root dir...

  I realize that it was me who made that fatal mistake in including the link to the upper directories into the selection. But the reason for writing this is that I would have expected any software to issue some kind of general warning or confirmation about the consequences of that action before giving the server such a fatal signal. Maybe it should have reminded me of the fact that this selection included dirs and files sitting above the current dir and ask me if I really, really (well, REALLY) wanted to proceed?

  Not sure if Fetch 3.03 allowed me to do that as well... (and I am definitely not going to try it, just in case it DOES ... :-))

  Well anyway, thanks for your continued support of the mac platform and for caring.

  Posted 21 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Yikes! Fetch knows to ignore "." and ".." when it is deleting or transfering a directory, but apparently it is not that smart when you select those items. I'll add that to my bug list.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 21 years ago #