I've got a bunch of scripts on my fileserver to help me manage all the tedium of maintaining my filing scheme. A few of these are related specifically to my image gallery—in specific, there's one that I run which A) copies original high-res images to a high-res directory, B) resizes everything, and C) thumbnails it all.
The problem with this is that there wasn't (until a few seconds ago) an interlock to keep me from overwriting any existing high-res images. If I run the script in a directory where it's already been run, it'll blow away the high-res images with lower-res versions.
Usually this isn't a problem. In fact, in the several years I've been using this script, it's never been a problem. Most of this has to do with the fact that I simply don't have similarly named directories.
This has changed recently with the rush of aleph directories. Today I typo'd a directory name—20050316-aleph instead of 20050416-aleph, and subsequently blew away all the high-res copies of Aleph right after his first bath.
Fuck.
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