Vent: My 'simple' Python script deleted a whole folder of my photos because I messed up a path.

I was following a tutorial on file handling, typed './images' instead of './images_backup', and ran the cleanup function before I realized my mistake, so has anyone recovered files after a coding blunder like that?

4 comments

4 Comments

davis.noah3mo agoMost Upvoted

Used to think backups were overkill, but a similar mistake changed my mind fast.

blair_taylor323mo ago

Got a backup before the tutorial?

jenny473mo ago

Learned that lesson the hard way too.

elizabethmason1mo ago

Oh wow, you seriously went all in without a backup? That's wild to me, @blair_taylor32 probably feels the same way I do about that move. I guess we all have to learn somehow, but man, that's a hard way to do it.