Deleting Directories

MHP · Post by **MHP** » 2010 Feb 28, 18:02

More than once, I have hit "Del" in xplorer2 and deleted a directory by mistake. This happens when the tree pane is active and I don't realize that.

I am requesting an optional prompt before deleting a non-empty directory.

Or have I missed something? Is that already there somewhere?

Thanks!

Mr.Pleasant · Post by **Mr.Pleasant** » 2010 Feb 28, 20:01

You might consider to turn on 'Automatically shift focus to view after activation' in Tools - Options - Window (Tree section). This way your tree-pane is hardly activated anymore, minimizing the chance you delete folders from it by accident.

Post by **nikos** » 2010 Mar 01, 06:36

right click on your recycle bin icon, pick properties from the menu and turn on the delete confirmation dialog

MHP · Post by **MHP** » 2010 Mar 05, 15:44

Mr.Pleasant wrote:You might consider to turn on 'Automatically shift focus to view after activation' in Tools - Options - Window (Tree section). This way your tree-pane is hardly activated anymore, minimizing the chance you delete folders from it by accident.

Thanks -- that seems to help. I am still not sure exactly by what sequence of actions I deleted the directories.

MHP · Post by **MHP** » 2010 Mar 05, 15:48

nikos wrote:right click on your recycle bin icon, pick properties from the menu and turn on the delete confirmation dialog

Thanks for the tip, Nikos. I was looking for confirmation ONLY for directories (or only non-empty directories) -- not for every file deleted. IMO, it would be great for X2 to provide that, and not to rely on Windows for such things.