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Data Loss Bug In OS X 10.5 Leopard

Posted by kdawson on from the first-do-no-harm dept.

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."

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  1. God help us by artem69 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Software has bugs?? OMFG! This world is rolling straight to heck.

  2. Re:Terrible bug by El+Lobo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No, understand it. It's not critical for Abble. If the problem was in Vista it would be .. OMFG, M$ are teh suxxx!

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  3. Data deletion in Mac OS X by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The other quirk that I really hate with Mac OS X, is that if you drop a folder with some data in it onto another folder of the same name in another directory with it's own data, all the data in directory you copy onto gets DELETED without so much of a warning.

    I know this is a UNIX thing, but even Windows isn't that mean.

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  4. Re:No it isn't by webmaster404 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Thats when you realize that open-source code is the way to go. Why? Because someone will look at the code as long as its a critical program to the system. This is why Linux and other Open Source programs have minimal bugs and when they do, they are quickly fixed whereas a "service pack" for Windows takes a year or two and about three years for the next version of OS-X. But, if only the code was open, oh well, I guess Ill just stick to Linux....

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