A Cautionary Tale

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               This is a Windows Vista tale, but probably applies to all versions of Windows. When keeping things tidy, beware of deleting "empty" folders. Apparently if you use the keyboard "just delete it without using the recycle bin" keyboard shortcut, Vista will quite happilly delete everything in the folder. Yes it will pop up a dialogue box asking if you are sure you want to do this. But after 2 days of working on 100+ images it is easy enough to not read it carefully and automatically hit yes. I could swear that I only had a single item highlighted, but vista's colour scheme on a tft monitor is not the best. So two days work (selecting, cropping, adding alpha, resizing etc) down the drain.

My only question has to be what idiot came up with this behaviour? It is easy enough to use a keyboard shortcut to select everything so why delete everything when nothing is selected?

Urrrrrgh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TR
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Mecheon]

               If you've only just deleted it, you can grab a recovery program and see what you can salvage
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Tarot Redhand]

               Nope, tried recuva and there's nothing left to recover. Cest la vie. Well I am not about to restart this for a day or so. Just need time to accept there'll all gone. At least it was only example files to hopefully encourage people to come up with add-ons for micro-maps v2. 

TR