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Bug 320910

Summary:	Automatic delete deleting too many files
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Thom Hehl <thom>
Component:	IDE	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	prakash, remy.suen
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Thom Hehl

2010-07-26 10:37:36 EDT

Build Identifier: Helios

The automatic delete function that is new to helios is deleting all files it thinks does not belong in its workspace. There are license files and other files we use for our project that are being deleted. Deleting these files is a problem.

Either this feature should be turned off, or allowed to be turned off in the configuration or allowed to be configured to lock out certain files/directories.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put a file someplace in the workspace
2. Start helios
3. File goes away.

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2010-07-26 10:57:42 EDT

Can you give more precise steps? Are you putting the files in the workspace? Or within one of the project's folders?

Which Helios build are you using? What file did you download, and what is its name?

Comment 2 Prakash Rangaraj

2010-07-29 03:32:58 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you give more precise steps? Are you putting the files in the workspace? Or
> within one of the project's folders?
> 
> Which Helios build are you using? What file did you download, and what is its
> name?

Thom,

  Can you answer the questions?

Comment 3 Thom Hehl

2010-07-29 14:09:53 EDT

If you put files in the workspace root directory, Helios wipes them from existence. I lost a viPlugin.licence file some few batch files used for automatic builds and backups.

Helios Build 20100617-1415

Comment 4 Prakash Rangaraj

2010-07-30 00:15:27 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> If you put files in the workspace root directory, Helios wipes them from
> existence. I lost a viPlugin.licence file some few batch files used for
> automatic builds and backups.
> 
> Helios Build 20100617-1415

   I tried copying some files to the workspace and started Helios. Nothing got deleted. It might be some third party plugin that might cause this.

   Can you try to reproduce it on fresh installation of Helios without any extra pluings?

Comment 5 Francis Upton IV

2010-10-11 13:41:00 EDT

Per Prakash