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Confused by hyp drive rm hyper://... - Cannot delete synced drive. #20
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Examples from a computer where I synced to (ie source is on the other computer).
hyp drive rm hyper://...
Accessing network...
Error: Cannot delete the root folder
hyp drive rm -r hyper://...
Accessing network...
Error: Cannot delete the root folder
hyp drive rmdir hyper://...
Accessing network...
Error: Cannot delete the root folder
hyp drive rmdir -r hyper://...
Error: URL is required
I want to delete this drive from this computer but it seems that I cannot. What should I do?
I'm curious to know where the drive is located on the filesystem (here macOS)?
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pfrazee commentedon Dec 14, 2020
Ah, interesting. So let me answer your 2nd question first.
In the
~/.hyperspacefolder, you'll find the "internal database." The hyper technology is a kind of database that acts like different things -- kind of like, for instance, if you built a filesystem on top of MySQL. (It's less insane than doing that but you get the idea.) So when you're interacting with a hyperdrive, you're interacting with that database.It might help to think of "hyperdrives" as virtual folders.
Expanding a little more on that for those interested
The "files" are stored in hyper's internal storage, and would look like nothing interesting if you looked at them. Another metaphor- it's kind of like how a .zip file contains lots of files inside it, but with hyper it's like 5-10 internal files with bits of data scattered around. It's done this way to make the hyper database as fast as possible.So the
drive rmcommand only deletes files inside of a hyperdrive, though intuitively I understand why you expected it to delete the drive itself.We don't have a "delete drive" command yet, @andrewosh let's plan to talk through how that would work
Jolg42 commentedon Dec 14, 2020
Thanks @pfrazee for the details!
Here is a snapshot of
~/.hyperspacefor the curious (kinda looks like Spotify's cache 😄)So I guess for now if I want to a complete cleanup
rm -r ~/.hyperspaceshould do the trick.pfrazee commentedon Dec 14, 2020
@Jolg42 if you want to do a big unrecoverable nuke, that'd do it!