--delete-all deletes non NPM data about npkill

[NyaGarcia]

First of all, we'd like to thank you for opening and participating in this issue.

We have not been able to find any evidence of npkill deleting any files apart from node_modules, nor have we been able to replicate this behaviour (not for lack of trying.)

What we have realised, after hours of testing, is that some applications, such as Visual Studio Code, Discord, Postman etc. have their own node_modules directories that enable them to work correctly. Therefore, when using npkill's --delete-all flag, these node_modules directories are also deleted. This can cause the aforementioned applications (and any other application that stores its dependencies in a node_modules directory) to fail or have unexpected behaviours, like messing up VS tooling.

Despite the fact that this is annoying and can cause a great deal of trouble, the --delete-all flag is working as expected, since it is searching for and automatically deleting every single node_modules directory it finds.

Even so, we have reached the conclusion that this flag can be dangerous and can cause problems. Therefore, we have chosen to remove it from npkill.

[duongdev]

Yes, all of my projects are gone. Just installed latest version ([email protected]). Ran npkill -D on home directory.

You should take down this project or display a BIG warning before the problem is investigated and solved.

[shennan]

Perhaps a list of everything that would be deleted as a result of this flag as a sanity check, then requiring a simple "Y" input to confirm such deletions? It's pretty annoying having to cycle through everything with space bar. And then if one takes longer, you need to cycle back up to check it's been deleted before quitting the runtime.

[zaldih]

First of all, I deeply regret what happened.
Please, could you provide me with all the possible information?

• Program version (npkill -v)
• OS
• The steps prior to the event
• If possible, the route from which you ran npkill
• Remember if during the event, all the directories in the list were shown?

Before launching the first version to the public, we did thousands of tests to test that none of this could happen.

Are you completely sure that the problem has been caused by npkill?

[duongdev]

It deleted not only my projects but everything under my home. The Projects/targeek still there because I was running a web server there while running npkill -D.

And iCloud too