Codex deleted my entire Drive

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Mar 4, 2026 by aliuyar1234 Closed Mar 5, 2026

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

Instructions were: delete the unncessary files for my research paper. Codex proceeded to delete every proejctfolder i had in that drive

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github-actions[bot] contributor · 5 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

#12519
#11583
#13099

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etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

I presume you were running in --yolo mode. We do not recommend this because of the danger involved. Enable the default sandbox policies to avoid this in the future.