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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. Re:Par for the course? by rbanzai · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

  2. Re:"haha" by Joe+U · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

  3. Re:That's silly. by jo42 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Gupta, is that you?