[arp242]

I once deleted about 20 years worth of pictures from company outings and such. This was stored in "cms.original2/data/images" or some such. There was also "cms.original", "cms.old", and just "cms" (and the entire thing was unused and didn't even work in the first place).

When I took over as maintainer of the intranet I set up subversion and cleaned up all of this "cp -r version control", which included checking in the latest version of everything and deleting everything else (there were dozens of projects with this kind of "version control", including "project.new", "project.new2", and it wasn't always obvious which one was the live version: could be anything).

Wasn't discovered until a few months later when someone wanted to look up some pictures, by which time the backups had been overwritten. I got some pretty sour looks for that, but seriously, 1) this was a stupid location to store stuff, and 2) version control is not rocket science.

Also: once had a customer who stored a lot of important documents in C:\Temp. I told him that was probably not a good idea.