Back when I was learning Python, my first real script deleted a folder of family photos instead of a temp file.

I was in my apartment in Dayton, trying to automate some file cleanup and mixed up my path variables. Has anyone else had a close call like that that made you double-check everything?

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young.drew3mo ago

@emerycarr wiped his music? That's brutal.

emerycarr3mo ago

Mixing up path variables is the worst. I once wiped my music library with a bad rm -rf.

lee7331mo ago

Did you read that post from @emerycarr about wiping his music? I remember reading somewhere that path variable mistakes are one of the top 5 ways people nuke their own files by accident (which is oddly comforting). Makes you paranoid to run anything without checking it twice.