0.7.0 beta suggestion: thick, fat warning for Deep Scan
Bug #451324 reported by
Daniel Riedemann
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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BleachBit |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Andrew Ziem |
Bug Description
I open a ticket here because I personally think it's very important:
The deep scan feature is really, really dangerous! Please place at least a thick, fat, red and blinking warning about that ;o)
For instance, it searches *.bak files. But I have .bak files that I manually renamed to *.bak and that are really important for me to keep them. Some files like Thumbs.db on windows are ok to delete without a question, because they automatically get recreated. But my personal *.bak files I don't get back after delete :-(
Just one popup can save the user for great damage here.
best regards
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Instead of a warning, what do you think about deep scan showing the extensions for the description? That way before the user clicks, he will know it will delete *.bak files. For example, the option description may change from 'Delete the backup files' to 'Delete *.bak and *~'? Otherwise, how do you suggest to phrase the warning?