confirmation should be asked before removing U1 folder from server
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu One Client |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Ubuntu One Client Engineering team | ||
Baltix |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
ubuntuone-client (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Ubuntu One Client Engineering team |
Bug Description
I use Ubuntu One for a lot of documents, in the Ubuntu One folder and, now that the feature is available, in some other folder.
Today, at work, I received a new laptop. I then moved, with SSH, all my folders from my old laptop to the new one. I moved because the old laptop will be given to someone else. Those folders include the Ubuntu One synced folders. I just didn't realize (I was also thinking that U1 was not bypassing the proxy at work. I was wrong).
Then, I now realized that all my U1 folders are empty on the new laptop ! When moving, the order to delete the file was sent to U1.
Hopefully, I have a third laptop with my U1 files but I have to be very careful and I have to boot it without any network connection. If not, I will have to fall back on the good old 2 months old disk backup. Also, it's a chance that my partner is not at home today, because she would have used that laptop and I would have lost a lot ! (I only lost part of my work today, including my GUADEC registration)
There is something very wrong here. I think that some protection mechanisme should be set. When deleting a folder which is a U1 root, a confirmation should be asked before removing the whole folder from the U1 server.
Worst : there's are worse catastrophic scenarios. Just imagine that you stay logged at home and your partner has administrative rights on it. He login into his own session then, by mistake, do a rm -rf /. You will then see suddenly all you files disappearing from your computer at work without any way to restore them ! What a nightmare !
summary: |
- Cleaning a disk is very dangerous with Ubuntu One enabled + confirmation should be asked before removing U1 folder from server |
Changed in ubuntuone-client (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in ubuntuone-client: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
assignee: | nobody → Ubuntu One Desktop+ team (ubuntuone-desktop+) |
tags: | added: nautilus |
Lionel,
I appreciate your frustration, it is never fun to lose data. In the use case where you are cleaning off an old computer I would recommend removing it from your Ubuntu One account before removing data. This would prevent Ubuntu One from receiving the 'delete' command. Your recommendation for a 'are you sure?' dialogue is a nice idea. I have updated the title of the bug to reflect this.
When sharing data with co workers I would recommend sharing a folder with that user instead of granting full access to your Ubuntu One account. You would still lose the shared folder but not the entire Ubuntu One folder. You can sharre any folder synced by Ubuntu One by r-clicking and selecting 'Share on Ubuntu One' https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/UbuntuOne/ Tutorials/ FileSharing# Sharing
Thank you again for sharing your use cases and ideas. These are very helpful for future development of Ubuntu One.
thank you,
duanedesign