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From: hull@hao.ucar.edu (Howard Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Workbench Discard bug
Keywords: Shift click Ok to discard
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Date: 10 Oct 89 03:05:10 GMT
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I have seen a couple of notes about a bug in Workbench 1.3 that can cause a
whole drawer of files to apparently vanish (usually into another drawer that's
represented by a nearby drawer icon) as a result of merely selecting the icon!
I have also seen notes indicating that the "Empty" drawer cannot at times be
copied (this may result in a circularly nested directory structure in which
none of the files can be accessed).  There is even a variation of the WB bug
that occurs in generic hard disk directories (I don't know if this is for OFS
or FFS) that can result in the files not appearing in a directory list, but
nonetheless remaining within possibility of access from the CLI provided the
file names are known.

However, a week ago while working with a bunch of files in my ProjectMaster
drawer on my hard disk, I did a shift click on three Icons, selected the
Workbench "Discard" menu item, and of course got the "Ok to Discard?"
requester.  When I approved the discard of the three selected Icons and
their associated files, the workbench deleted _ALL_ of the Icons and the
related files in this entire directory (residing on my hard disk in an
OFS partition).  Gee, was I ever surprised!  Gee, was I ever p*'d.  Is this
a bug in WB 1.3?  Are any of these bugs _FIXED_ in WB 1.3.2?
						Howard Hull
						hull@hao.ucar.edu