Data Loss Bug In OS X 10.5 Leopard

An anonymous reader writes "Leopard's Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in progress. This author first came across it when Samba crashed while he was moving a directory from his desktop over to a Samba mount on his FreeBSD server."

Comments

"Doing it the apple way"

[jgarra23]

hehe... sorry, I just love that quote. This is apparently how move works in "The Apple Way". The same thing can happen to your bank account when purchasing Apple products... flame on, troll, whatever lol...

Not that I engage in schadenfreude all the time but I feel a little warm feeling inside that makes me smile when those jerks @ the PDX Apple store have their cake and eat it too. Try n' make me feel like they're doing ME a favor by selling me an ipod... sheesh...

Re:Tiger has this problem as well!!!

[wizardforce]

yep, your story sounds a lot like a friend of mine and his laptop. The genius reinstalled his OS without doing a backup and surprise!! all his files are gone. Always keep a back upo and never ever simply move a directory unless it is absolutely impossible to do otherwise. DVD back-ups are your friend.