A bug? ----- Forwarded message from Alex Volkmer <alexander_volkmer at web.de> -----
From: "Alex Volkmer" <alexander_volk...@web.de> To: "Ian Clarke" <ian at freenetproject.org> Subject: Re: Freenet 0.5 Hallo again, in my case, this temp-folder is not a regulary temp-folder. I always use an ordinary folder as temporary folder. It?s only named "Temp". So my Win2K hasn?t an possibilitys to clean this folder. After sending you my first email I run some test with Freenet 0.5. I created six different folders: two on my workstation, two on my mainserver and another two on my NAS. Each folder contains 150 MB of different testfiles. I repeated the installation and configuration of Freenet 0.5, with telling Freenet to use the new folders as temp-directorys. In all five tests each time the same result. The testfiles get lost and are not retrieveable. So may be it?s my network witch is giving up or the is a subroutine in Freenet that cause that problem. Best regards Alex V. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Clarke" <i...@freenetproject.org> To: "Alex Volkmer" <alexander_volkmer at web.de> Cc: <steven at freenetproject.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:35 PM Subject: Re: Freenet 0.5 > Well, I am very sorry to hear that, but I really don't think it is our > fault. A temp folder is - by nature - somewhere you store temporary > files, and your operating system, in this case - Windows, is liable to > delete files in the temp folder when it needs more space. > > Freenet probably filled up your temp folder, causing Windows to delete > your old files. Freenet did nothing improper in this regard, and I > suspect that any other program which requires a lot of disk-space > could have had a similar effect. > > My advice to avoid this type of thing again is: > 1) Don't put important files in your temporary folder > 2) Back up your hard disk regularly > > Again, I am sorry to hear of this inconvenience. > > Kind regards, > > Ian. > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:14:50PM +0100, Alex Volkmer wrote: > > Good evening, > > > > Stephen Starr was so kind to give me your emailadress. I?ve mailed > him because i have a little problem with your Freenet 0.5. About an > hour ago I installed that little sucker. After installation it asked > for a temp-folder. So I gae it my main temp-folder on my NAS-Server. > To bad for me that this folder contains(-ed) more than 60 GB of data > of different kinds. Because after telling Freenet 0.5 to use this > folder, it deleted ALL of this 60 GB. All data gone. And with it over > 6 months of work (Models in 3D-Studio Max, movies (my hole Babylon > 5-Collection, almost all episodes), music, scripts etc.). And with > gone I really mean gone. Many attempts to retrieve this data failed. > > > > So my question is: How the hell could this happen ??? Any idea ??? > > > > Best regards > > > > Alex V. > > -- > Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] > Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
