Deletes files when optimizing a large batch about caesiumph HOT 3 OPEN

This just happened again, with a 130-file batch. Again, CaesiumPH was set to overwrite files, but in this case all the files were in a single folder, and they were added directly to the list instead of letting CaesiumPH walk through the folder itself.

Both of these cases share the commonality that the files in question are in a Google Drive folder, with the Google Drive Backup and Sync utility running, and it hasn't happened with files located elsewhere (yet), so I'm guessing that has something to do with it.

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I've thought about this a bit more in the years since reporting it, and come up with one way it could happen: if CaesiumPH deletes a file when it overwrites the file, the Google Drive Backup and Sync utility may be syncing the file deletion and interfering with CaesiumPH writing the optimized file back to disk somehow. This is of course conjecture; I don't actually know how CaesiumPH overwrites the file, or how the Backup and Sync utility works.

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It happened to me today. I lost a very large number of files. I was lucky to have them on a local backup. However, unlike @Dinoguy1000, my files were not in a Google Drive folder. They were just on the disk.

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