I just bit myself, hard.

Day job has me as a software developer. I was testing out some changes to a window layout. This window allows you to configure automated tasks… so say, at midnight your computer will automatically execute whatever you told it to do. Well, I was just testing out the GUI changes but needed a task in the window so I created a dummy task. The task ended up being set to move basically every file in my home directory into my Documents folder. I didn’t set it that way, those are just all the initial settings when you create a new task. I didn’t care.. .it was just to be a dummy task for the GUI testing, right?

Only I forgot to remove the task before I stopped work for the day.

I get to my work computer this morning and about shit myself because I saw everything was gone.

Only no, it’s not all gone, it just moved some 97,000 files to a single folder.

Shit. Shit. Shit!

And the sad thing is, my Time Machine backups were turned off because last month it started to constantly choke on these particular files, and I couldn’t resolve the issue. So the last backup I have is a month old. But hey, if I had a backup from a few hours prior I could just blast it back and be done with it.

Damnit.

Well, I know what I’m spending today doing.

*sigh*