Klaas, for example, unison has an option for "confirm big deletions".
Emre On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Klaas Freitag <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27.03.2013 11:54, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote: > > Hi Andrei, > > first, I'd like to say sorry for the trouble you're experiencing here. > > > Thanks for the advice, I've read the thread and followed the instructions >> to delete the filecache from db. Once the filecache has been removed I've >> logged back in to the web interface and it has populated the data. However, >> I was still missing the data from two folders worth about 2-3GB. These two >> folders were completely empty. >> >> Following that I have checked my client pc and found that I still had >> files on my local pc in the ownCloud/Shared folder. I've fired up the >> ownCloud client application with the hope that it would reupload everything >> back to the server. However, instead of doing that it has completely >> removed files from my pc. I have not only lost the files from the two >> folders, but pretty much from all the folders apart from one folder which >> had the old data which hasn't been touched for over a year. As of now all >> my data is lost!!!! I do not see them on the server and they are also now >> missing from my local pc. >> >> How could this happen? Why did the owncloud client remove everything from >> my local pc instead of syncing it back to the server? >> > > The problem is: Your change on serverside was more recent. And since > syncing also means that deletion of files is propagated, the more recent > deletions were propagated to your client and the files got removed. > I know that this is probably not a good answer for you, but thats the > reason why that happened. > We are discussing solutions to prevent this but we do not have a final > solution implemented yet. > > Sorry, > > Klaas > > ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: "Mathias Johansson" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, 26 March, 2013 6:34:44 AM >> Subject: Re: [Owncloud] upgrade from 4.5 to 5.0 lost all files >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> Read this forum post http://forum.owncloud.org/** >> viewtopic.php?f=23&t=9168<http://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=9168>seems >> to be an issue with the cache when upgrading. >> >> >> I did the same thing the post above helped me. >> >> >> //Mathias >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: "Andrei Mikhailovsky" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tuesday, 26 March, 2013 1:06:05 AM >> Subject: [Owncloud] upgrade from 4.5 to 5.0 lost all files >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I've recently ran "apt-get upgrade" on my Ubuntu 12.04 server and amongst >> other things it updated the ownCloud packages to the latest 5.0.0 release. >> As a result all my data has disappeared from the clients as well as from >> the web interface. I can see that there is about 15gb out of 17gb of data >> on the file server's data folder, but nothing is visible from the web >> interface or clients. Could anyone suggest how to recover the data? >> >> Many thanks in advance >> >> Andrei >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Owncloud mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/**listinfo/owncloud<https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Owncloud mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/**listinfo/owncloud<https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Owncloud mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/**listinfo/owncloud<https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/**listinfo/owncloud<https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud> > -- Emre
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