Arduino deleted files

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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I was trying to save a few files when a prompt about Arduino not finding a certain project folder and asking me if I wanted to create a new one.

Get this: it didn't say if it was going to delete any files. It didn't even warn that there were files in that directory. It just went along and deleted gigabytes of important documents, after which I spent hours trying to recover only 30%.

To whichever incompetent developer decided this was a good idea - please stop programming and go clean toilets. You clearly have the mental capacity of a rock to decide that Arduino's project folders are more important than whatever is in the directory already.

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I think if that was an Arduino issue we would certainly have heard of it long before now.

I play with multiple versions of the IDE and online tools and have never seen this happen.

To be honest it sounds more like a user error.

You might want to add SPECIFIC details as currently they are quite vague.

My track record for simple deletes so long as the user has not played around too much is often more than 95% for data recovery.

If you read this first then add the specifics I am sure some of us would be able to test out what you think happened.

Bob.

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No specific details because Arduino just simply deleted my Documents folder and that was that.

Arduino should at the very least tell the user that there are currently files in the specified directory before deleting everything in there.

Or, you know, don't delete anything. Just create a new folder, and put whatever files are needed in there.

Here's the command:

mkdir /path/to/folder

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Again details PLEASE !
IDE VERSION ?
Windows VERSION ?
Did you change any of the install options ?

Arduino does NOT simply delete the documents folder unless you did some weird stuff to the install and even then it would only be a maybe ?
And even then recovery would be reasonably simple fo some of us.

Yes I know the windows command lines quite well coming from the PRE-DOS era.

Bob.

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I have never heard of behavior anything like this from the IDE - please give as much detail as possible about exactly what you did that led to this.

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Get this: it didn't say if it was going to delete any files. It didn't even warn that there were files in that directory.

I think that you see that wrong. The files were already gone when it told you that the directory did not exist.

Sorry for your loss.