WinSCP deleted both LOCAL and REMOTE file upon failed upload
This really bit me in the bum today. :| :cry:
Situation: Got a SFTP-3 connection, using Explorer mode. My remote server somehow has a horrible link with tons of timeouts that's neither my side nor their side (the stuff happens at hop 10 of 20 hops, measured from either side), so I can't fix that.
Scenario: I'll be happily editing by doubleclicking. Gvim with a file in Temp\scpXXXX\whatever.c. I'll at some point try to upload. It will timeout during the transfer, before the transfer, it varies a bit. I get the 'reconnecting in 15s dialog', but that never seems to do shit. So I canceled it.
Problem!
I had already closed GVim. That ended up in my REMOTE file being DELETED, and my LOCAL copy ALSO having been DELETED. This is a reason for me to stop using WinSCP immediately until this bug is fixed.
(Annoying follow-up: Remotely I can't recover, and my luck had it that browsing to a file-recovery on my own pc had my browser overwrite the blocks of the recovery file with its cache. I should have rebooted or done offline recovery, but damn, a 156kb file overwritten on a volume with 15GB or so free. What's the odds? :()
Other than that, WinSCP seems to have the features.
PS: May I suggest an option to totally disable deleting of files after closing an editor, and only doing so upon restart or when the same remote file is re-opened? That would save a lot of pain with bugs like these.
-JW
Situation: Got a SFTP-3 connection, using Explorer mode. My remote server somehow has a horrible link with tons of timeouts that's neither my side nor their side (the stuff happens at hop 10 of 20 hops, measured from either side), so I can't fix that.
Scenario: I'll be happily editing by doubleclicking. Gvim with a file in Temp\scpXXXX\whatever.c. I'll at some point try to upload. It will timeout during the transfer, before the transfer, it varies a bit. I get the 'reconnecting in 15s dialog', but that never seems to do shit. So I canceled it.
Problem!
I had already closed GVim. That ended up in my REMOTE file being DELETED, and my LOCAL copy ALSO having been DELETED. This is a reason for me to stop using WinSCP immediately until this bug is fixed.
(Annoying follow-up: Remotely I can't recover, and my luck had it that browsing to a file-recovery on my own pc had my browser overwrite the blocks of the recovery file with its cache. I should have rebooted or done offline recovery, but damn, a 156kb file overwritten on a volume with 15GB or so free. What's the odds? :()
Other than that, WinSCP seems to have the features.
PS: May I suggest an option to totally disable deleting of files after closing an editor, and only doing so upon restart or when the same remote file is re-opened? That would save a lot of pain with bugs like these.
-JW
