Deleting a lockfile

[Kenneth Brody]

On 4/5/2011 5:17 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
[...]
>> My shot-in-the-dark out-of-the-blue guess...
>>
>> They shift-clicked on "lockfile", thereby selecting everything from the
>> currently-selected item (which defaults to the first filename) through the
>> lockfile.  And, given that there probably weren't any J, K, or L files
> (aside from
>> "lockfile"), that could be seen as "everything in that folder starting
> with A
>> through I".
>
> I think you are correct.
>
> I was able to reinstall most of what was deleted except some new selection
> sets that I don't normally copy to my test bed.  Looks like I will have to
> start copying these also.
>
> If they had caught this early enough and the person who deleted the files
> had not logged off of his terminal server session, we might have been able
> to recover these files.

And people say there's no use for a data ("starts with 'a' through 'l'") 
segment.  :-)

BTW, does logging off a terminal server session empty the recycle bin?

-- 
Kenneth Brody