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From: ewout@cbmvax.UUCP (Ewout Walraven - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench Discard bug
Keywords: Shift click Ok to discard
Message-ID: <8134@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 13:49:35 GMT
References: <4657@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: ewout@cbmvax.UUCP (Ewout Walraven - CATS)
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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

First thing which comes to mind: Might you've selected the three icons with
the shift key down, while your Drawer icon was still selected? I.e. you
just opened the drawer (hence it's selected), pressed shift and started 
selecting more icons? In that case what hapened was supposed to happen.

EC

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