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title: "Claude Code catastrophe: Entire project recursively deleted while prompting in Chinese (full video + logs) — Stuff That Spins"
description: "Cross-posting from r/claude for more visibility. LAST UPDATE: I managed to recover the code later from an Electron packaged build / updater cache / app.asar. But the recovery is not the part that bothers me. My prompt did not ask for deletion. Not even close. Yet Claude Code generated the Windows e…"
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# Claude Code catastrophe: Entire project recursively deleted while prompting in Chinese (full video + logs)

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**Published:** July 1, 2026  
**Original:** https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1ukq4br/claude_code_catastrophe_entire_project/  

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