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It began with a friend of mine asking for a script to clean out some jpg, txt and other files from his My Documents-folder.
I proceed with writing the following:



I send it to him. He then changes his mind and only wants it to clean out his My Music-folder. So he surprises me with pointing out that he can change A_myDocuments to A_mymysic. Didn't know that variable, but trusting my friend I said OK. He proceeds with running it...

He then proceeds with running it...

Can you guess what happens?

He comes screaming back to the conversation telling me that it removed every single txt, jpg, etc file on his computer!

So how did this happen?
Well, since A_mymusic didn't exist, the script for some reason decided to walk back to C:\ and loop everything from there.

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"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

ouch

reminds me of the classic Unix horror story

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If it's any consolation to you, you have put a smile on my face.

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Because the variable doesn't exist, it's replaced with an empty string. In a path this causes the folder in A_WorkingDir to be used... - Funny

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COMPLETELY INACTIVE - I do not use AHK anymore.

Actually, in this case the path would begin with "", which indicates the root of the current drive.

should I laugh or feel pitty?





*he got owned*

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Note: My name is all lowercase for a reason.
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Too busy to look them up, since I'm just about to go to work, but there are a couple file recovery freewares out there that aren't too bad. I hope you told him to leave the computer off so the files don't get overwritten or chopped into useless frags.

If Undelete in DOS supports wildcards, that might work, too, but I haven't tried it so I don't know for sure.

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recent relevant post on lifehacker: How to Recover Deleted Files with Free Software

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