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From: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench Discard bug
Keywords: Shift click Ok to discard
Message-ID: <8133@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 13:48:56 GMT
References: <4657@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <4657@ncar.ucar.edu> hull@hao.ucar.edu (Howard Hull) writes:
>
>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

	No, this is not a bug BUT some may view it as such.  Here is what
happened.  The drawer icon for the window in which you were working in
must have been selected before you started shift-clicking on the icons
(that you wanted to discard) in the window.  When you were done, you had
the drawer icon selected (unknown to you) and some icons in that drawer.
Workbench thought that you wanted to delete the entire drawer (since you
had the drawer selected) and proceeded to do so for you.  Sorry.

	No, this is not fixed in 1.3.2.

	For V1.4 workbench will tell you how many icons you have selected
for deletion.  So if you shift-select two icons, choose discard and see
that workbench is telling you that its about to delete three icons, you'll
know something is wrong.

	Yes, I know that there are more sophisticated things wb could do
like search the entire deletion list and report duplicates.  In the above
case it could say something like 'You have just asked to delete the entire
contents of drawer blah blah and some of the icons in it as well.  This
request is redundant!  Are you sure you want me to do this?'.  As
time/resources permit we will continue to enhance the system software.

	daveb