[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Extraordinarily bad Missing Sync bug

[Rob Buckley]

Disaster! Missing Sync 5.0's Folder Sync conduit has just wiped a large
number of files and folders from my wife's computer. The common aspect to
each of the files and folders? They all contained a forward slash / in their
filename.

We'd set it to sync a particular folder. The first time it synced, looking
at the log, it said it was unable to create particular folders and files on
the SD card in my wife's T3. The second time it synced it reported that it
had removed the files from her laptop. We've looked in vain in the trash,
Application Support folders, via Spotlight, etc, but there are no residual
copies. Only files and folders with the forward slash in had been affected.

Couple of suggestions then:

1) Fix the bug and warn people (assuming I've diagnosed it correctly)!
2) Maybe moved any files that were 'deleted' to the Trash or a backup
folder.

We had a backup up of the folder from a month ago, but there's a lot of
lost, very important documents that we can't replace and we don't want
anyone else to suffer the same fate.