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10.4: Fix a Delicious Library Dashboard widget issue
Authored by: wiggo on Jul 06, '05 11:25:06AM
Hmm...this deleted my entire library, and a bunch of other prefs by typing in Terminal rm -dR ~/Library/Cashes/Metadata/Delicious Library Items Thanks! Don't try this at home...

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10.4: Fix a Delicious Library Dashboard widget issue
Authored by: alblue on Jul 06, '05 06:53:19PM

You didn't put the folder name in quotes, which would have highliged the problem that 'Caches' isn't spelt with two 's's.

What happened is that you ended up doing 'rm -rf ~/Library/Cashes/Delicious' as well as a 'rm -rf Library' and 'rm -rf Items'. The first wouldn't have done anything (given that the spelling is wrong) whilst the second, if run from your home directory, would have *censored*ted your Library folder, which is where all your preferences, caches, settings etc. are stored. This includes stuff like iCal calenders (Library/Calenders) and your whole Delicious Library (Library/Application Support/Delicious Monster or some such).

Moral of the story: *always* quote paths with spaces in them, especially if you don't know about escaped spaces. What's an escaped space? Use quotes all the time and you don't need to know.



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Electronic Darwinism
Authored by: chucky23 on Jul 06, '05 11:20:59PM
"Thanks! Don't try this at home..."

Well, actually what not to try at home is using the command line if you're not conversant with command line syntax.

With an undo command and with the temporary repository of the Trash, the Finder is much more forgiving than using "rm" if you don't know exactly what you're doing.

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