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the undo button in explorer still doesn't work properly after 28 years
by blibble 3y ago
the undo button in explorer still doesn't work properly after 28 years
- jetrink 3y agoI recently hit ctrl-z in explorer after accidentally moving some files and instead of moving back, they just disappeared. I couldn't believe it. I had to recover them from a remote backup.
- oefrha 3y agoShit, I once irreversibly lost a document I spent an hour on due to something like that. It’s ridiculous.
- bobbylarrybobby 3y agoRecent-ish HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35927413 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35927413
- ssss11 3y agoI saved a ppt in OneDrive the other day and it disappeared. It hadn’t synced, but it didn’t only show locally, it had completely disappeared! I closed ppt and re-opened but corp IT has disabled history in ppt so I couldn’t get to it again. It just magically showed up an hour later……..
- happymellon 3y ago> corp IT has disabled history in ppt so I couldn’t get to it again. Some of these rules that security come up with are amazing.
- beebmam 3y agoReally? I've never had that problem. Can you get a repro scenario?
- yellow_lead 3y agoI've had it happen before. It's a bit more complicated but I can't remember an exact repro. Something like delete, undo, redo, undo.
- dvngnt_ 3y agomaybe external hard drive?
- hju22_-3 3y agoNah, it's more like not all deletions are equal. It probably has to do with the user launching the event on the backend, if I were to guess, but sometimes if you delete something through Explorer, it isn't added to the undo history. Some of these I've seen not end up in the recycle bin despite not permanently deleting them, hence why I wouldn't be surprised if it was another user being used for these edge-cases. The deleted items would then be added to that user's recycle bin and be unavailable to the actual user's undo history. Basically; not really sure, just making a wild guess, but I've encountered similar edge-cases before.