Claude Code Ran rm -rf on a Folder It Never Confirmed Was Empty, Destroying 2,969 Personal Photos
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A user asked Claude Code to tidy up duplicate year folders in a photo archive — merge 2013a into 2013 , 2014a into 2014 , 2015a into 2015 , then delete the now-redundant "a" folders. Claude tallied the files first, wrote a move script, and finished with rm -rf . The move had silently failed. The de…
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- 2026-10-29 11:05 · DEV Community — AI
Claude Code Ran rm -rf on a Folder It Never Confirmed Was Empty, Destroying 2,969 Personal Photos