Cursor deleted files after a simple folder cleanup request
Cursor was asked to remove one empty test folder after the work files had already been moved into the main folder. Instead, it appears to have run a badly quoted rmdir command in . That command can force-delete a folder and under it, so it may have removed much of D:\MasterHD rather than only the intended folder.
The deleted files did not go to the Recycle Bin, which made recovery much harder. A daily backup limited the damage to one day of work, but the incident shows that working inside a does not automatically make destructive file actions safe.
Key points
- A request to delete one empty folder appears to have deleted many files on a drive.
- The likely cause was a badly quoted rmdir command run through .
- The files were deleted directly instead of being moved to the Recycle Bin.
- A daily backup reduced the loss to one day of work.
- from should be reviewed before they run.