I downloaded and installed Atlantis Word Processor v1.6.6.1 yesterday, as part of a Giveaway of the Day (giveawayoftheday.com). As I was configuring the software, something interesting/horrifying happened. In Options > Load/Save, I clicked on Backup Files. I wanted to change the backup folder from my C: to F: drive (both SSDs). I clicked on Browse, selected my F:\Scratch folder and clicked OK. I realized that I wasn’t given an option to create a new subfolder, so I manually created one called ‘Atlantis’ in F:\Scratch, then I attempted to change the backup folder location again. I was prompted to ignore, copy or move files from old location to new. For some reason I clicked on Move (stupid me). Atlantis Word Proc then attempted to move every single non-Atlantis-related file and folder I had in F:\Scratch to the subfolder ‘Atlantis’. Roughly 4 GB worth of files. After a few moments I realized what was happening, but could not do anything about it at that point. I figured that after the move was finished I could just move the files back to their original location. That's when I saw that after the operation had finished, ALL FILES WERE GONE FROM F:\SCRATCH AND THE ‘ATLANTIS’ SUBFOLDER WAS EMPTY AS WELL.
Nothing put into Windows' Recycle Bin either. Wow.
I'm guessing this happened because the max amount of backup disk space slider is set to 100 MB by default. But what I don't understand is why
everything in F:\Scratch was deleted except the 'Atlantis' folder.
Humble suggestions for the developers:
1) You might want to add a prompt to check with the user before deleting any of that user's files.
2) Make sure to delete to the Recycle Bin so the files can be undeleted if necessary.
3) When moving files from old backup location to new backup location, maybe calculate the amount of data to be moved beforehand, and display a warning if it exceeds the max backup disk space.
4) Perhaps check for any non-word processor files (like, say, FLAC or MP4 or PSD files) involved as well. Any binary files, really. These are not typically edited in a word processor.
Note: I was able to recover a lot of my data from backups, but still lost a lot that had not yet been backed up and was not recoverable via low-level disk drive data recovery.
