Starting over with IDE - Githubissues

sgilbert-student commented 5 years ago

What symptom did you see (attaching screenshots as necessary)?

I had an interesting problem with one of the students in one class that started this week. She deleted the hidden .c9 folder. I had hoped that when she logged back in it would be recreated, but instead, an Amazon AWS dialog appeared where the only choice was to install Cloud 9 for AWS. When she clicked through, that failed. To solve the immediate class problem, I had her just create a new GitHub account with a different email address and that worked fine (of course). My question, is, is there any way to abandon the ruined IDE attached to her original GitHub account and start over?

When date and time (UTC) did the problem happen?

About 10:15:00 p.m. Tuesday August 27, 2019

What steps did you follow to reproduce the problem?

Well, I hesitate to reproduce it because I only have a limited number of github accounts.

Which web browser did you use (including version number)?

Latest Chrome

Which operating system did you use (including version number)?

Windows 10

Did you log in to CS50 IDE using the same GitHub account you used to create this issue?

No, this was a student in our Computer Lab, using her GitHub account.

SNathJr commented 5 years ago

@sgilbert-student @kzidane

I can confirm that there is an issue here.

Steps to reproduce:

Delete the .c9 folder rm -rf ~/.c9
Reset the IDE / Restart the IDE / Close the tab and log back in
AWS asks if it can install the cloud9 IDE

It ends up not working and leaves the IDE in a bricked state

sgilbert-student commented 4 years ago

I've just finished setting up for the Spring semester, and again I had a student who deleted the files in the IDE and, essentially, bricked it. It would be nice if there was some kind of "reset" we could use to get a fresh IDE. Currently, the only solution is to create a new GitHub account, and start from there.

kzidane commented 4 years ago

@sgilbert-student the IDE recovers automatically from this after a few minutes. No need to create a new GitHub account. Unfortunately there's a Cloud9 limitation that's no making protection against this easy but we're looking into solutions.

kittytanisha commented 4 years ago

@sgilbert-student @kzidane

I can confirm that there is an issue here.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Delete the .c9 folder
   `rm -rf ~/.c9`

2. Reset the IDE / Restart the IDE / Close the tab and log back in
   ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/20180524/63955560-88ca9000-caa2-11e9-869b-26ee9f44b293.png)

3. AWS asks if it can install the cloud9 IDE
   ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/20180524/63955649-b3b4e400-caa2-11e9-8fad-e5910a126717.png)

1. It ends up not working and leaves the IDE in a bricked state
   ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/20180524/63955975-3f2e7500-caa3-11e9-93d1-81df9783bc33.png)

Hi, I have the exact same issue, as the screenshots show. Is this resolved yet?

BigTimeStats commented 3 years ago

I'm also curious about this as I accidentally moved all files from ~ to another dir, hoping to just move my project files to organize. However, it moved every single file from ~, and when I moved them back they are not hidden anymore. What is a good solution here?

mkdir C
find ~ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t ~/C
find ~/C -type f -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t ~

Thank you!

kzidane commented 3 years ago

This should be fixed.

cs50 / ide-issues