melikia opened this issue on Nov 23, 2008 · 22 posts
chippwalters posted Mon, 24 November 2008 at 2:52 PM
Sorry to hear it. Aren't pets fun (though where would we be without them)?
A couple of years ago I was programming late into the night, and I accidently passed a null to a function called "revDeleteFolder". All of the sudden the comptuer's hard drive started cranking away and everything locked up.
About 20 seconds later it occurred to me what I had done-- the program was systematically deleting each and every file on the hard disk. I reached around the computer and pulled the plug. Too late. Damage done.
Thank heavens I live in the country. I'm sure the yelling could be heard quite a ways away.
Seems funny now-- not then!
PS. since then I've written my own functions for deleting folders and they won't delete system files no matter what. Live and learn :-)