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Bug 363475

Summary:	Deleted home directory
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	William Platt <william.john.platt>
Component:	IDE	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	david_williams
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description William Platt

2011-11-10 09:41:43 EST

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I am not sure what conditions led to this and am embarrassed by it.  In trying to test the Android development kit, I created a project and clicked through all the default settings.  I got a warning, but kind of was not paying attention.  Apparently the project was created in the root of my home directory(expectation was that Eclipse would create a project folder with the name of the project).  Upon deletion of the project, eclipse deleted my entire my entire home directory.  I was given a chance to roll back, but figured I would undelete from the trash.  Anyway, files were not in the trash and I had to do a deleted file recovery to get my home directory back.  Yes, this was my fault and not a bug per-se, but no program should ever mess around with the users root home directory.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 David Williams

2011-11-10 16:22:27 EST

Sounds serious ... do you think it might have been the "Android development kit" that did this? 

I'm not sure eclipse can ever protect all users from themselves :) but sounds odd that a "workspace" would be exactly the same as {user.home} or that a project could be created with no name ... or ... I guess perhaps you might have been using "linked resources"? 

Would be nice to have some reproducible steps, but understand your reluctance to 'try again'. But ... if you could do the "creation" and just don't do the delete, it might give some hints where this issue comes from.

Comment 2 Lars Vogel

2019-11-14 03:35:09 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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