On Sun May 27 2007, Thomas Hertweck scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
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People have been known to replace the "rm" command with a script or shell procedure that moves the target files to a "trash" directory instead of deleting them outright.
It still doesn't help with, e.g, and application's "Save as..." function that overwrites an existing file, but it's something.
That's why you should have a backup of important files. If the file is deleted or the disk crashes or whatever and a user does not have a backup, then the user can only blame himself for this trouble. With all these large external USB disks available nowadays, it shouldn't be a problem to make regular backups even for home systems.
No kidding, the problem, esp. for home users seems to be they "forget" to do a backup on week, then they let it slide , for another week... and the next thing you know,some weird hardware, or software update even, somehow trashes a partition w/ the family pictures, or his business papers in.. and ..... well, although no one has proved a murder was caused by this behaviour... it's not unlikely that some "rage" killings may just be caused this way... A person discovers their important files have been "lost" somehow , and as they spin themselves into a fit of rage, the other person in their life gets too close, too soon.. a letter opener appears in a hand... and we cut to...sounds of Sirens ... the police arriving to see what the fuss is about, and some lawyer thinks up a novel defence.i.e.: the computer made them do it.. <Sigh> -- j I've lived in the real world enough, we're all here because we ain't all there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org