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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."
I haven't noticed different behavior in any version of Windows. How do you merge similarly named folders during a copy/move in Windows? In my experience you get the same "Do you want to replace this?" type prompt you get in OS X.
Only complete bastards would be happy that someone, somewhere lost important data.
It's a Mac, kinda like saying your 'speak and spell' lost data.
I am telling you, I am being a very talented programmer. I am working on the Apple, it is finder program and I am telling you, I am being very talented.
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Setting his threshold to 5, Sparky eliminated most of the trolls on /.
I honestly wouldn't call Darwin Open source, because you have to enter just about everything about you including your address just to download a copy, if it was truly open-source it should be downloadable on a public FTP server, sure you can get the source, but hey, I don't own a mac and when its a hassle to get the source code, why bother, just get BSD and put a Mac skin on GNOME or KDE.
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I ran into this same problem in Windows XP. I was moving files from a FTP server to a local directory. When moving files from an FTP server, Windows first copies all of the files and then once the copy is complete it deletes them from the FTP server. Well, I just started the copy and realized that I was copying the files into the wrong directory. So I clicked "Cancel" and Windows stopped moving the files... Then it deleted all of the files from the FTP server.
Ouch.
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I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Leopard fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a fresh install of Leopard (on a iMac w/ 2 gigs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another network folder. 20 minutes. And it lost my files after my cat decided to pee on my Airport base station. At home, on my ancient Alienware Quad-Core running Vista, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this machine, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that. And not lose my data. In addition, during this file transfer, Finder will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even iTunes is straining to keep up as I type this. I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various file transfers, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Leopard that has run faster than its Longhorn counterpart, despite the Leopards's faster leg architecture. My Vista box with 8 gigs of ram copies files without data loss better than this 4000 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Leopard is a superior operating system. Leopard lovers, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Leopard over other faster, cheaper, not-going-to-lose-my-files-during-a-transfer systems.
I'd love to see the faces of those who spent $5000 on Apple stuff because it suits their metrosexual digital lifestyle when they lose their DRM-ridden files when copying them to their statutory iPod.
I was about to say 13256278887989457651018865901401704640, but it appears this number is private property.
And while we're at it, stop contributing to Linux and the GNU userland! Red Hat charges good money for that - let them fix it!
Lol, I forgot you can't say anything wrong about Apple.
Though the good thing is that Apple metrosexual elitists who use a $5000 Mac as the central hub of their digital lifestyle burn their mod points in this, and their opinion counts less for important matters. So keep burning them.
I was about to say 13256278887989457651018865901401704640, but it appears this number is private property.
Gupta, is that you?