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"Good news, everybody. Further reports indicate the bug doesn't delete the folder, just the contents. So, all that needs to be done is to make a protection folder one time."

Oh great! I'm glad it just deleted the files but leaves an empty folder intact. Really dodged a bullet there.

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In the original post, he says that you need to create a directory, and then write a script to recreate it in the event that it gets deleted (to prevent Adobe from nuking your files). Since Adobe deletes the contents and not the folder, it turns out that you don't need to keep recreating it.

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