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Comment by fuzzy2

2 days ago

Trash is a shell feature. Unless a program explicitly "moves to trash", deleting is final. Same for Word documents.

So, no, there is no undo in general. There could be under certain circumstances for certain things.

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NewsaHackO  2 days ago

I mean, I'm pretty sure it would be trivial to tell it to move files to the trash instead of deleting them. Honestly, I thought that on Windows and Mac, the default is to move files to the trash unless you explicitly say to permanently delete them.

  • fuzzy2  2 days ago

    Yes, it is (relatively, [1]) trivial. However, even though it is the shell default (Finder, Windows Explorer, whatever Linux file manager), it is not the operating system default. If you call unlink or DeleteFile or use a utility that does (like rm), the file isn’t going to trash.

    [1]: https://github.com/arsenetar/send2trash (random find, not mine)

  • johnisgood  2 days ago

    Because it is the default. Heck, it is the default for most DEs and many programs on Linux, too.

Ajedi32  2 days ago

Everything on a ZFS/BTRFS partition with snapshots every minute/hour/day? I suppose depending on what level of access the AI has it could wipe that too but seems like there's probably a way to make this work.

  • literalAardvark  2 days ago

    I guess it depends on what its goals at the time are. And access controls.

    May just trash some extra files due to a fuzzy prompt, may go full psychotic and decide to self destruct while looping "I've been a bad Claude" and intentionally delete everything or the partitions to "limit the damage".

    Wacky fun

  • antinomicus  2 days ago

    The topic of the discussion is something that parents, grandmas, and non technical colleagues would realistically be able to use.

    • Ajedi32  2 days ago

      A "revert filesystem state to x time" button doesn't seem that hard to use. I'm imagining this as a potential near-term future product implementation, not a home-brewed DIY solution.

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