Reply to post: Re: Necrophilia for fun and profit

The wild world of non-C operating systems

heyrick Silver badge

Re: Necrophilia for fun and profit

"all had features that today's mainstream OSes lack or do badly."

Once upon a time it was a fairly easy job to undelete a file, just as long as you had your "oh shit" moment right away.

All these fancy dodahs these days, nuke a file and it's gone for good. Delete a folder by mistake and everything vanishes in a microsecond with no way of undoing it (and since you don't have low level access to anything without jailbreaking, you can't even try to retrieve whatever might remain).

Yup, progress.

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