[Lynne]

I don't know why you are saying we aren't listening, I know I've read this thread and listened to the arguements. I understand the frustration of the OP. However, I don't think you guys understand that many times a mod is moved to the Graveyard after it is noticed that the developer deleted the files. Sometimes they are nice enough to delete the files and then report the post to tell us to move it to the graveyard, but often the files are just deleted and we find out some other way that the mod no longer has any files attached.

It is impractical to not allow the developer to delete the files because very ofter there are fixes/upgrades to the original mod and it gets confusing to have a non-working version and a working version attached to the thread. It's also impractical to demand that all developers supply uninstall instructions in the thread. They won't do it. They'll simply not release their modifications if there are too many rules. And, try telling the unpaid mods that they are required to download a mod and figure out how to uninstall it just so they can move it to the graveyard (on the off chance that the product file was left behind)? Well, um, I know I won't be asking for that promotion.

I would suggest keeping a copy of all the modifications you download on your harddrive, somewhere on your server, and also on the offsite place you put your backups. And, when you backup your computer documents, backup your vbulletin files also. If you do this, then hopefully you have it covered. (And with gmail allowing so much space, email them to yourself also if you think all four of those methods could fail at the same time.)