Re: Feature request: confirm data loss when renaming folder with ignored files

Hi Greg

> Why are you declining to sync something that is important, while wanting
> to sync the containing directory?  I really am curious, because I find
> that people are wanting to use ignore all the time, in ways that don't
> make sense to me.


Here's a case study in the importance of 'ignored' files for you....

I have 6TB of photographs on multiple cloned disks, on and off location. 
The bulk of these are camera originals in .DNG format. From these I make 
selections to edit and prepare derivatives for print or publication and 
these are in .psd or .tif formats. When I synchronize these disks, I 
ignore all .DNGs because a) their modification dates seem to change 
whenever I make a clone and disambiguating these is a royal PITA (I only 
have one lifetime after all); and b) it is the PSD and TIF files which 
definitely need to be updated across all backups. Eliminating DNGs from 
synchronization makes this process manageable.

The DNGs which I often ignore are some of the most important because 
they are the foundation of the archive and their contents are rarely 
modified without a format change.

Jorge's tale is terrifying to me and, while I haven't been bitten like 
he has, I will definitely be choosing the option to NOT DELETE anything 
without prior examination.


Looking forward to others' thoughts on this,
-Said

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