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strongp
I was replacing placeholder images yesterday afternoon just prior to
publishing a site. Switching between Photoshop and FrontPage, I saw the
image to be replaced was highlighted, and hit the delete key. A
confirmation window popped up which I OK'd without reading (or
thinking).
Unfortunately while the graphic object was selected in the right hand
page of FP, the application focus was on my Images folder in the folder
list - I realised what had happened immediately because the web page
in the right pane immediately lost all the images.
Now at this point I wasn't worried. I'm a technical professional
and haven't suffered any data loss since two hard drives failed on me
within 12 hours back in 1993.
I started with CTRL-Z. No joy. I went to the recycle bin. Nothing
there. Then off to last night's backup - except that most of the
images had all been created or edited that day. I checked my browser
cache, but as these were local files I found nothing there. I was saved
a lot of work because I'd copied the web earlier in the day, and was
able to retrieve much of my work from that copy, and recreate the rest
in a couple of hours. So I only lost 3-4 hours of my evening - it
could have been worse.
So why am I boring you all?
Well, trawling the usenet I see I'm not the only one to have suffered
this. So here's an open question to Microsoft.
Is there any other desktop application in which data that was stored in
a persistent folder on a hard drive can be deleted without any chance
of recovery (as the default delete behaviour) or any option to undo?
As a seasoned programmer I find it hard to believe that this behaviour
has persisted in all versions of FrontPage (which I've been using
since v1.0b, and yet has never been reviewed. This is the sort of
destructive capability I'd expect to see in a hardcore sysadmin's
utility toolbox, not in a desktop web development tool....
publishing a site. Switching between Photoshop and FrontPage, I saw the
image to be replaced was highlighted, and hit the delete key. A
confirmation window popped up which I OK'd without reading (or
thinking).
Unfortunately while the graphic object was selected in the right hand
page of FP, the application focus was on my Images folder in the folder
list - I realised what had happened immediately because the web page
in the right pane immediately lost all the images.
Now at this point I wasn't worried. I'm a technical professional
and haven't suffered any data loss since two hard drives failed on me
within 12 hours back in 1993.
I started with CTRL-Z. No joy. I went to the recycle bin. Nothing
there. Then off to last night's backup - except that most of the
images had all been created or edited that day. I checked my browser
cache, but as these were local files I found nothing there. I was saved
a lot of work because I'd copied the web earlier in the day, and was
able to retrieve much of my work from that copy, and recreate the rest
in a couple of hours. So I only lost 3-4 hours of my evening - it
could have been worse.
So why am I boring you all?
Well, trawling the usenet I see I'm not the only one to have suffered
this. So here's an open question to Microsoft.
Is there any other desktop application in which data that was stored in
a persistent folder on a hard drive can be deleted without any chance
of recovery (as the default delete behaviour) or any option to undo?
As a seasoned programmer I find it hard to believe that this behaviour
has persisted in all versions of FrontPage (which I've been using
since v1.0b, and yet has never been reviewed. This is the sort of
destructive capability I'd expect to see in a hardcore sysadmin's
utility toolbox, not in a desktop web development tool....