Eh I've lost files because I was working in a ramdisked /tmp when the computer lost power. That's what one gets when working in a dir called "tmp". Some people

Eh I've lost files because I was working in a ramdisked /tmp when the computer lost power. That's what one gets when working in a dir called "tmp". Some people will see their stuff vanish from /var/tmp and that will be their day of learning. I guess they won't have a backup of files in there either. They were one misfire away from loss anyway. Sure it feels different when the distro just ran over your misconceptions. On the other hand, when I encounter a stray tmp dir, I assume everything in it can be deleted with negligible consequences. So I tend to rm them without even a glance inside.