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How to lose your work using Undo Copy in Windows - mihai.fm (mihai.fm)

submitted 1 year ago by sisyphean to c/programming

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While not strictly related to programming, this is very surprising and harmful behavior that demonstrates how important thinking about edge cases is.

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[–] lowleveldata 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the use case of a "Undo Copy" feature anyway? I can see some cases that I'd want to "Undo Cut" but why do we need another shortcut to delete a file just because it was copied?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For example, if you Control+V-d the files into the wrong folder in windows explorer. I've undoed copies many times this way.

However, the post doesn't mention whether this behavior is present with Ctrl+Z as well. If so, that's even words, because you wouldn't even get to read the action you're about to perform.