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Tool deleted all my stuff from scenery folder

szcsongor

szcsongor

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Hi,

Just a heads up to everyone using this tool.
I tried it the other day and I was kinda stupid to place and run it in the actual scenery folder where I previously put all the files of my current photoscenery project.
After clicking the tree placement button (I forgot how it's really called) I realised that it immediately wiped clean the scenery subfolder, since that's the place this tool puts all its BGL files for the trees.
Now after many days I still couldn't recover all files, so some are lost forever (those were big, 1.5 GB files, and when these kind of big files are deleted from an NTFS drive, it can happen that the cluster informations are wiped too by the system, and that makes the files practically unrecoverable...).

So it would be good to be warned by the tool that when it creates the scenery folder or when it finds a scenery folder, everything will be deleted in it.
Is it actually necessary for the tool to wipe the folder clean? Why can't it just place its created files in it, while keeping untouched anything already in the folder?

On the other hand I think this tool is very useful, it makes tree placement much faster and hassle-free. It's just my first experience which turned out to be a disaster...
 
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