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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 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 it’s local USB, local Firewire, SMB, etc.). Also, I have been informed that this bug goes back all the way to Panther.
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...
Re: Massive data loss bug in Leopard, Tiger and Panther
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Originally Posted by bmxbandit
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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