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Trash is a shell feature. Unless a program explicitly "moves to trash", deleting is final. Same for Word documents. So, no, there is no undo in general. There
by fuzzy2 9mo ago
Trash is a shell feature. Unless a program explicitly "moves to trash", deleting is final. Same for Word documents.
So, no, there is no undo in general. There could be under certain circumstances for certain things.
- Ajedi32 9mo agoEverything on a ZFS/BTRFS partition with snapshots every minute/hour/day? I suppose depending on what level of access the AI has it could wipe that too but seems like there's probably a way to make this work.
- antinomicus 9mo agoThe topic of the discussion is something that parents, grandmas, and non technical colleagues would realistically be able to use.
- Ajedi32 9mo agoA "revert filesystem state to x time" button doesn't seem that hard to use. I'm imagining this as a potential near-term future product implementation, not a home-brewed DIY solution.
- darkwater 9mo agoA filesystemt state in time is VERY complicated to use, if you are reverting the whole filesystem. A granular per-file revert should not be that complicated, but it needs to be surfaced easily in the UI and people need to know aout it (in the case of Cowork I would expect the agent to use it as part of its job, so transparent to the user)
- literalAardvark 9mo agoI guess it depends on what its goals at the time are. And access controls. May just trash some extra files due to a fuzzy prompt, may go full psychotic and decide to self destruct while looping "I've been a bad Claude" and intentionally delete everything or the partitions to "limit the damage". Wacky fun
- NewsaHackO 9mo agoI mean, I'm pretty sure it would be trivial to tell it to move files to the trash instead of deleting them. Honestly, I thought that on Windows and Mac, the default is to move files to the trash unless you explicitly say to permanently delete them.
- johnisgood 9mo agoBecause it is the default. Heck, it is the default for most DEs and many programs on Linux, too.
- fuzzy2 9mo agoYes, it is (relatively, [1]) trivial. However, even though it is the shell default (Finder, Windows Explorer, whatever Linux file manager), it is not the operating system default. If you call unlink or DeleteFile or use a utility that does (like rm), the file isn’t going to trash. [1]: https://github.com/arsenetar/send2trash https://github.com/arsenetar/send2trash (random find, not mine)
- OJFord 9mo agoShell? You meant Finder I think?
- Alphaeus 9mo agoGUI shell (as opposed to a text-based shell).