Annette said:
Has this issue been resolved in the latest version of TDO Mini forms? It’s such a fab plugin, but as I’m hosted on a Windows server (against my will) that hosts other sites, I’m a but nervous about trying it until I find out where things are at with the Windows file deleting prob.

It should be fixed. In fact with the latest drop of the plugin, it maintains an exact list of files uploaded and only deletes those, so this issue should never happen.

Always good though to test on a test site first if you’re not 100% comfortable with it.

Hi Mark,

Has this issue been resolved in the latest version of TDO Mini forms? It’s such a fab plugin, but as I’m hosted on a Windows server (against my will) that hosts other sites, I’m a but nervous about trying it until I find out where things are at with the Windows file deleting prob.

Annette

Hi Adam,

I understand you’re feelings, I’d be pretty pissed off it happened to me. The good news is that I have fixed it now and made the release so hopefully no-one else will go through the same heartache again.

Sadly, I thought I *had* put a warning on the download page. I put it in the “readme.txt” which is meant to be picked up by WordPress.org, but it seems it hadn’t. (The download page here is automatically updated from the WordPress.org one).

Hey Mark, I know the plug-in is for free and you seem to put a lot of time and effort in to development and offering support which is greatly appreciated by all.

I think when I wrote this I was still really distressed about losing several years worth of personal data as I am sure you can appreciate. I was lucky to have 80% backed up but others may not be so lucky. I know nothing was intentional and it’s encouraging to see the problem being addressed; in the meantime maybe a warning on the Word press download page would be more noticeable?

The plug-in seemed to work fine on my Unix based host also, I have avoided development on WAMP.

Thanks for all the hard work and sorry if my message seemed at all offensive – it was not intended, I was just a bit stressed at the time.

Adam

Adam said:
I think more needs to be done to prevent this, the notice is far to easy to miss and the concicuences can be devastating.

I understand that. I have found the problem and fixed it and i’m testing the release before I make it public (should be tomorrow). But it should be noted, that problem is not related to any particular release of TDOMF, so just removing the last release would not do anything. The problem exists with WordPress and Windows and the Upload Files feature of TDOMF. I’ll go into more detail in a post tomorrow.

But I’m not sure what else I could do. I updated the Readme.txt (I don’t know why this doesn’t appear on the WordPress.org page which is really annoying). I posted on my blog which feeds into the main dashboard of TDOMF and I posted on the Forums here.

I’m also releasing the plugin for free and provide support for free and can only work on it in my spare time. I don’t have access to resources to check every feature on multiple platforms and browser configurations – so I do depend on user usage to tell me if something is up. And it’s only recently this has popped up it’s ugly head.

Do we know if there are any issues when uploaded?

What do you mean? All I can say is, with the current drop of TDOMF, it’ll work fine on Unix/Linux based hosts. The problem only occurs on Windows host, basically where the directory seperator in the path is ‘\’ instead of ‘/’.

This also happend to me yesterday. I lost 40gig of music and two folders full of personal files. I have only just seen the notice with the link to this post in the CMS after posting on the WP forums: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/243868?replies=2

I think more needs to be done to prevent this, the notice is far to easy to miss and the concicuences can be devastating.

I am running XP, WAMP v2.0 and WordPress 2.7. I had the same error screen after clicking “delete post” in the WP CMS.

Do we know if there are any issues when uploaded?

I am glad that I read this. I was going to try this out on my local virtual host with windows xp.

For those who use local machine for testing, why not set up a virtual server using either vmware or VirtualBox.

Hope you fix this shortly because I am delaying launching of my project partly on this (not 100% but it would be nice to have this implemented).

verified it on my vmware sandbox.

Thanks Nick. I’ll look into it for the next release.

verified it on my vmware sandbox.
Vista, XAMPP, WordPress 2.7, TDO Mini Form

As described this happens when you delete a post with the admin interface.

It semes to run down the whole C: drive!
After that even rebooting fails!

Windows users should be extremely cautious!

Yes i was using the administration of tdo. There is a good chance that it didn’t actually delete the files in my doc and settings folder, but rather it may have corrupted my user account and in windows when that happens a new user account with all new settings is created automatically making it appear that everything was deleted, which it actually was but by windows not your code. I’m fairly convinced that it was a combination of the beta Apache server, the computer im using and maybe a small script error that just tipped the bucket. I’m sure what happened on my windows computer would be completely impossible on a Linux server so i should be safe trying it on my main website, but just in case i think ill wait just a little longer but the code looks great and i appreciate you taking on the task of creating such a useful plugin.