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Cursor's rmdir wiped a drive after approving one temp folder

A developer approved exactly one thing: deleting an 18.5GB compilation temp folder to free disk space. The command Cursor actually ran deleted the source code, the Git repo, the publish folder, and six months of backups alongside it. What the source says Per the reporter's forum post : working in C…

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  1. 2026-11-10 12:58 · DEV Community — AI
    Cursor's rmdir wiped a drive after approving one temp folder

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