All my pictures are gone

I ran this tool and stopped and continued later because of too many files and used the --trash option. Now after emptying the trash all my pictures are gone in the generated directories.

So the tool has created the entire tree of directories even with dates and locations but all directories are empty.

I even checked if it was working half way and it was fine. All pictures were there in the respective directories and now all are gone.

How is this possible?

— checklist by @jmathai

• Check for file existence when skipping duplicates and tests
• Do not allow destination folder to be inside source folder and tests
• Print statistics after completion and tests

[jmathai]

Closing this issue after checking off the todo list. Thanks for reporting and helping debug.

[jmathai]

@sebastiaandegeus I think you’re right that the destination folder being inside the source folder was part of what caused the problem you encountered. Precisely for the reason you explained.

I’ve added checklist of things to address for this issue. You hit a really nasty set of behaviors that are ultimately bugs because the library should know not do delete photos under these circumstances.

This uncovered some other potential bugs if the script were used in a way we hadn’t considered. Feel free to add suggestions to the checklist.

Thanks and sorry about that.