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12-18-2007, 6:54 animal Joined on 11-09-2007 Germany Posts 49 Viewer: Delete Image needs an Undo! Hi all! Just had a really bad case of "Nooooooooooooooo!".... even though it turned out okay in the end. Here's what happened: I was browsing today's recording for stuff I don't want/need to keep using the keyboard only. For some reason - without me noticing as I was focused on the actual snapshots rather than the timebar - the timebar went into selection mode (this is of course a different issue that should also be addressed!). When I had found an image that I didn't want to keep I simply pressed Ctrl-Del and Boom! TimeSnapper started purging pretty much my entire day's images. I only noticed what was going on after a few seconds because it took unusually long to delete the (supposedly) single image and then immediately killed TimeSnapper via Task Manager. The damage was done: a good six hours of images deleted. Fortunately, a colleague had told me about a freeware undelete utility just yesterday and I immediately downloaded and ran it. It was indeed able to successfully recover all but 20 of the ~1200 lost images to another partition from where I could reimport them again into TimeSnapper using the Import Images from Older Version tool.... phew! That worked. Nevertheless, there should be some way to undo the deletion inside TimeSnapper itself. Alternatively, how about only deleting them for good when closing the browser and until then only mark them for deletion or something like that.... Anyway, keep up the good work! ;) Cheers, Oliver    Report

12-18-2007, 7:36 AtliB Joined on 05-30-2006 Reykjavik / Iceland Posts 382 Re: Viewer: Delete Image needs an Undo! Hi Oliver happy to hear it worked out for you in the end! We all know that sinking feeling I'm also interested in hearing more about this:  animal wrote: Hi all! the timebar went into selection mode (this is of course a different issue that should also be addressed!). We'll see what we can do to prevent (or recover from!) accidental deletion of TimeSnapper images. thanks Atli Check out TimeSnapper, the automatic screenshot journal at www.timesnapper.com It runs in the background of your computer, taking screenshots of your desktop every few seconds all week long. TimeSnapper lets you play back your week just like a movie. Use it to improve your work habits and become more productive.    Report

12-19-2007, 6:04 animal Joined on 11-09-2007 Germany Posts 49 Re: Viewer: Delete Image needs an Undo! Not sure whether it's the same that happend that time but here's one way I can reproduce consistently: Click on a Note marker in the time bar (given there is one of course) Close the Note dialog (doesn't matter how - both OK and Cancel have the same effect) Press left or right cursor key -> timebar is now in selection mode I'll watch out and let you know if I find out any other way to trigger this. Hope this helps. Cheers, Oliver    Report

12-19-2007, 16:06 AtliB Joined on 05-30-2006 Reykjavik / Iceland Posts 382 Re: Viewer: Delete Image needs an Undo! You're absolutely right.  I was able to reproduce this. Thanks for pointing this out -- we'll fix it! Atli Check out TimeSnapper, the automatic screenshot journal at www.timesnapper.com It runs in the background of your computer, taking screenshots of your desktop every few seconds all week long. TimeSnapper lets you play back your week just like a movie. Use it to improve your work habits and become more productive.    Report

02-24-2009, 1:25 animal Joined on 11-09-2007 Germany Posts 49 Re: Viewer: Delete Image needs an Undo!  AtliB wrote: You're absolutely right.  I was able to reproduce this. Thanks for pointing this out -- we'll fix it! Any news on this? I still have this problem in TimeSnapper 3.3.0.0    Report

03-09-2009, 14:11 animal Joined on 11-09-2007 Germany Posts 49 Re: Viewer: Delete Image needs an Undo!  animal wrote:  AtliB wrote: You're absolutely right.  I was able to reproduce this. Thanks for pointing this out -- we'll fix it! Any news on this? I still have this problem in TimeSnapper 3.3.0.0 ...and also in TimeSnapper 3.4.0.21 still...    Report

03-09-2009, 16:10 AtliB Joined on 05-30-2006 Reykjavik / Iceland Posts 382 Re: Viewer: Delete Image needs an Undo! I've fixed this now. Will come with the next patch of TimeSnapper. Thank you for your perseverance and feedback :) Best regards Atli Check out TimeSnapper, the automatic screenshot journal at www.timesnapper.com It runs in the background of your computer, taking screenshots of your desktop every few seconds all week long. TimeSnapper lets you play back your week just like a movie. Use it to improve your work habits and become more productive.    Report

03-09-2009, 16:11 secretGeek Joined on 05-30-2006 Brisbane Posts 58 Re: Viewer: Delete Image needs an Undo! Yay! .: http://secretGeek.net :: dot Nuts about dot Net :.    Report

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