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CleanUppOut() can clear the entire home directory! [message #61920]

Mon, 09 February 2026 17:33

busiek
Messages: 71
Registered: February 2011
Location: Poland

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Hi there,

I downloaded posix sources on ubuntu 24.04. I compiled it by make, then copied the ide to ~/.local/bin directory. When I run ide and choose "Clean UPPOUT" from the menu a prompt with such text appears: "Erase the whole output directory ?". After pressing OK the entire home directory is cleaned. It happened to me. You can imagine what troubles I had on ext4 filesystem Sad

The problem is that the field Ide::target is empty and the prompt question is misleading. I thought it should clean the usual folder in cache directory. Probably, it happened because no compile target was selected yet. "Clean UPPOUT" should forbid such scenario.

Jakub

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Re: CleanUppOut() can clear the entire home directory! [message #61921 is a reply to message #61920]

Tue, 10 February 2026 23:58

Klugier
Messages: 1112
Registered: September 2012
Location: Poland, Kraków

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Hello Jakub,

This is good catch. I had similar problem in the past that accidentally some important files were removed by TheIDE, but I didn't know what cause this problem. We should definitely fix before release. Removing user data in home directory is a big misunderstanding. I won't test on my setup. Instead of this I will use VM to reproduce.

Klugier

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