I nearly did something quite silly, but completely unintentional – and figured I would share to possibly remind others to be cautious!
I have DT3 watching my folder where I drop in new references/attachments for Bookends, my reference manager.
When a new attachment is added to this folder, the Folder Action/Services kick in, and the DT3 menu pops up, asking where I want to place the new file.
Which is very useful.
Simultaneously though, depending on how things have been done, Bookends might call-up a new window to allow me to auto-complete the entry, AND a new reference window might also be called up – with some of the basic details of the new reference already entered, that can be edited – to save as the new citation details.
Today, the following happened.
1.) I pulled in the Safari webpage to BE, to create a new entry.
2.) The new BE citation window popped up.
3.) The article’s title was incorrect – I placed the cursor behind the title, and started [backspacing] to delete the incorrect information at the end of the title.
4.) DT3’s window then popped up, asking where I wanted to place the new file.
NOTE >> 3.) and 4.) happen automatically, and usually within less than a second of one another.
4a.) By default, the Group I had dropped my previous file into (inside DT3) was selected in the group-picker window at 4.)
5.) With my still [backspacing]/[deleting] the BE title, DT3’s new window became the active window – and – I deleted my “New-PDFs” group, along with its 523 files…
To be clear – it was simply moved to the Trash inside DT3.
And I noticed it immediately, since the Group I wanted to drop the new file into, was no longer available in the pop-up menu, since it had been trashed.
So I simply dropped the file into the Inbox, restored/dragged the accidentally deleted group out from Trash, and all was right again.
That being said >> I did not realise groups (and presumably, files??) could be deleted from within the pop-up menu.
Which is not to say that this is not useful, but something one must just be aware of.
I guess worst case scenario would involve my accidentally deleting group A, but not noticing it, since I now wanted the new file to go to group D – and then, still without having noticed the missing group A, clearing out the DT3 trash without checking things…
Probably not likely, but still possible.
So I thought I would share. Use it/don’t use it!