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punky

06-11-2007 10:29

Massive data loss bug in Leopard, Tiger and Panther

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LeopardÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢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 action. I first came across it when Samba crashed while I was moving a directory from my desktop over to a Samba mount on my FreeBSD server.

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The bug occurs regardless of the type of destination being moved to (whether itÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s local USB, local Firewire, SMB, etc.). Also, I have been informed that this bug goes back all the way to Panther.

bmxbandit

06-11-2007 10:45

Re: Massive data loss bug in Leopard, Tiger and Panther

Oops -schoolboy error! I guess if you're copying anything important across a network, make a local copy first. If it goes back a few years, I'm surprised nobody has noticed before...

dragon

10-11-2007 13:05

Re: Massive data loss bug in Leopard, Tiger and Panther

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Originally Posted by bmxbandit (Post 34428391)

Oops -schoolboy error! I guess if you're copying anything important across a network, make a local copy first. If it goes back a few years, I'm surprised nobody has noticed before...

Just Copy it then delete the orginal file once you have verified the copy is ok..

I found out moving files across a network is a bit of a risky business anyway much better to create a copy then manually delete the original...

Saying that its still an undesirable 'feature' of OSX

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