Data Loss Bug In OS X 10.5 Leopard

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w1z4rd

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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 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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http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopard/
 
That's why I copy first, then delete the source.

I don't trust move operations over a network drive.

But things like this should not happen.
 
OSX has a move function? That must be new to Leopard. Even in a windows environment, like T_L, I always copy then delete.
 
OSX Tiger had a move function by holding down the command key while dragging the file / folder to a network drive. Didn't you know that?
 
JayN said:
OSX Tiger had a move function by holding down the command key while dragging the file / folder to a network drive. Didn't you know that?
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Nope - never did. Thanks.

Guess I'd better not use it :D
 
I've been caught like this in Windows before when doing a big move and everything freezes.

Interesting though that FreeBSD problems are also Leopard problems. Rather like all Linux distros suffer from the same faults in a particular compilation of the core.
 
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