Feedback Follow-Up: Deletion of All Data in Program Folder During IDE Update

[TheMagician]

I know that this thread about the same topic has been closed after a flame war broke out.

I simply wanted to mention that I too lost a lot of data because I stored it in the same location as my (customized) GMS 2 install directory.

Let's not start a debate again about how stupid users are who do something like that. All I want to ask is if it is possible to add one sentence to the message box that you have to confirm when an IDE update is due which goes something like:

Warning: Updating the IDE will delete all data in the installation directory.

 

[Terminator_Pony]

I know that this thread about the same topic has been closed after a flame war broke out.

I simply wanted to mention that I too lost a lot of data because I stored it in the same location as my (customized) GMS 2 install directory.

Let's not start a debate again about how stupid users are who do something like that. All I want to ask is if it is possible to add one sentence to the message box that you have to confirm when an IDE update is due which goes something like:

Warning: Updating the IDE will delete all data in the installation directory.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the IDE know its own directory? Why not throw an error when attempting to save to that location, preventing all of this from the start.

 

[Feronar]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the IDE know its own directory? Why not throw an error when attempting to save to that location, preventing all of this from the start.

That seems pretty reasonable. Especially since GMS2 is meant to be accessible to beginners, it would make perfect sense to have a safety check, if someone tries to save a project to the GMS2 exe directory, give an error message that says "You cannot save projects to the GMS2 exe directory. Select a different save destination."