Wow. Very... uh... interesting user instructions here. Guess this is for all the "hackers" who think they can just delete folders to save disk space...

Heh, took me a minute to realize what I was looking at.

The best one I heard was a friend of mine who had installed some old windows 95 game on the C:\My Documents folder, and not in it's own directory*. Then, she went to use the uninstaller and it deleted all her personal files as well. Ouch!

*That is, the .exe and data files were right in C:\My Documents

I've seen people install games into C:\. Imagine the pain of trying to clear that mess up.

I guess "README" doesn't catch attention like it used to.

I'm sorry, I must be stupid or something, but I don't get it. What's so special about that screenshot? Could someone explain it to me? (I never used that google thingy so that's probably why I have no diea what this is about)

It has filenames that, when sorted by name, form a warning message to the user.

Doh It's more obvious in the list view. I'm using that in all my programs from now on

Hehe miran... you kinda deserve this, the way you confuse newbies with ironic one-word replies, don't you think?

i have the same thing.... interesting idea on google's part. Of course its wasting my HDD space

Anyone old enough to remember DEL *.*
That happened once in a while in those days.

rm -rf * .o

(N.B. whitespace.)

Ick. Tile view.

And if I saw a message like that I'd more or less have to try deleting the files to see what happened...

Painful.
Reminds me of the time a friend of mine had finished her programming project and wanted to remove all object files, so she accidentally typed `rm -rf *.c' and hit enter...

CTRL+C... and I mean quick... you should really verify what you type before hitting enter. I won't say much because even though it's never happened to me yet I'm not going to say it couldn't happen to me too

Ouch. That gives me the same feeling like when watching America's Funniest Home Videos and some guy takes a golf ball straight to the nads...

Ow.

The fact that you're watching a show like that tells quite a lot of you...

nothin' like typing hda instead of hdb on a format

worst thing I remember is typing gcc main.c -o main.c -lalleg on a quite large source file

I've been a victim of gcc -o watever.c before... it sucked.

or installing gentoo, mkswapping your / partition instead of the swap one. good thing nothing was installed yet.

I like my convention better... you can use it to scare small children

Oh no! Not Norton Antivirus! That would scare even full grown adults.

A friend of mine was going to reinstall Linux, backuped all important files and tried to remove everything from root directory. Fortunately, he interrupted this process after some seconds after reminding that he had Windows disks mounted. Strangely, Linux started removing files from these mounted drives, starting from "Windows" and "Program Files". All Linux files remained untouched.

Command line leets live dangerously. I guess I wouldn't have nerves for that. That's why I use Windows or Mac OS and a proper IDE.

Nah, I get hit with the same problem in windows, SHIFT+DELETE (or is it ctrl+delete?) to delete stuff and not send them to the recycle bin.

I never use shift+delete. Why should I? OTOH, deleting something from a disc or any strange volume seems to throw it away without a warning. At least on some Windowses.

A friend of mine deleted a bunch of source doing that, he thought he was deleting the old stuff.

In windows, you should be able to recover the files even if you delete with shift+delete. There was the DOS undelete utitity (dunno if it still exists though) and you have the "Norton Protected Recycle Bin" which does the same (and which is quite handy sometime ).

Another stupid thing which comes too my mind now, is that I (on our first PC (386)) typed something like type > autoexec.bat, I don't remember exactly. Anyway, the bad redirection caused autoexec.bat to be overwritten and I didn't even know anything about DOS back in those days . Fortunately I discovered a (little outdated) backup after half an hour of panicking .

Johan: When I delete files, its only to free disk space, if I didnt want/need the file I wouldn't have it in the first place.

attrib +r autoexec.bat
Yup, I used to have that.

An acquaintance of mine did that. On a production server. In one of those industries where every minute of downtime costs k$...

You have to backup your files like going to the voting booth: Early and often! CD read-write drives & blank media are cheap enough for massive backups when the version directories get out of hand.

I just got my dvd burner. Its nice to be able to burn 4.6gigs to a dvd in just under 8 minutes (at 16x), what would normally take me a while with cds (burning at 48x, but i have to sort the files to fit). One dvd held my entire 2004 download archive (with the isos i burned deleted) and January 2005's downloads.

<quote name=""BAF"">I just got my dvd burner. Its nice to be able to burn 4.6gigs to a dvd in just under 8 minutes (at 16x), what would normally take me a while with cds (burning at 48x, but i have to sort the files to fit). One dvd held my entire 2004 download archive (with the isos i burned deleted) and January 2005's downloads.</quote>

I do the same. I burn all my downloads on a DVD regularly. The same with my software projects. It's really the best thing you can do.
After I burn my downloads, I delete it from my HD, so I don't get confused with redundant data.