tomkarpik.com — 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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xspinkickxNov 7, 2007
I cant say anything about leopard I haven't used it yet, but I prefer Gutsy overall, both have their pluses and minuses.
th3wiz4rdNov 7, 2007
Well, in short, you wouldn't. Because it hardly works at all. Why do they 'support' something that clearly works like crap?Here's the scenario I have at work: Active Directory, mixed environment (pc and mac). I need users to be able to access files (desktop/documents/etc) on both windows and mac computers. Luckily windows server 03 has AFP support.
th3wiz4rdNov 7, 2007
OSX is to blame for the most part. If Apple can't get it right, they shouldn't put it in their OS and pretend that works. True, it would help if MSFT were more cooperative with protocols, but you can't put all the blame on them for Apple supporting protocols that they haven't implemented properly.
taimanNov 7, 2007
no wonder that there are so few bugs discovered in apple products, the user always thinks it's his/her fault. :-)BTW i am a owner of both a mac and PC and know both systems have flaws and advantages so i am not a fan boy of either systems but a bug in the move or copy function should have been found in the alpha or beta stage, especially for something that's been around for a few decades.
robogoboDec 4, 2007
that's not the point. It's a bug and should be corrected.
robogoboDec 4, 2007
auto-buried for saying fanboy
robogoboDec 4, 2007
amen.
harbingerzeroJan 31, 2008
Funny, in retrospect I've never thought to do a move when copying. The default mechanism of dragging then deleting always seemed like the most sensible thing to do. For me, it must be a holdover from being a long time computer user, I don't trust any OS with a move command. Your comment is duly noted however, that was too strong a response from my side. As far as fanboyism, grow up. You should have just called me a Mac Zealot and gotten your 90s Apple rage out the right way.
osiris24xMay 1, 2008
I couldn't have said it better myself. Your points on the BSD subsystem and the banking issues are dead on.
gorecoveryearsSep 25, 2009
It's only now that I learned about this...Thanks! fortunately, I was never disturbed by this bug.