![]() These apps probably don’t delete the images out of your files – I don’t know what happened exactly, but if I had to place bet, I’d bet that one of these files was still open on your computer when the Caches folder was “cleaned”. Stacks will try to fall back to the original image locations and the last saved data – but if those have also been cleaned up or moved… … then that’s it. Stacks stores all its intermediate data in the caches folder. ![]() ![]() ![]() The caches folder is often used by running apps and is assumed to be totally stable – this is the case for Stacks. The reasons is that many of these apps “Clean Up” the caches folder. Whenever running these types of apps run them with NOTHING else running.Įven quit utility apps like dropbox and menu bar apps. Some people only keep recent backups and that means… …lost data. The scariest part is that the changes are sometimes insidious – if you didn’t regularly work on this site then it could have been weeks before you noticed. I’ve heard countless horror stories of lost data, corrupted data, and destroyed systems. Make reliable and well tested backups before running these types of apps. Kudos to you for that diligence.įor anyone considering these sorts of utility apps here’s the recommendation from the guy that writes Stacks (me) and has to help people clean up the mess that these apps often create: So many of of these cleaning apps do terrible things.
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