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naveen_reloaded
06-11-2007, 12:45 PM
Massive Data Loss Bug in Leopard
November 5 th, 2007
Update: 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.
Update 2: Here's a video of the same thing happening to a USB drive: leopardmovebug.avi

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.
I've now run tests on a Windows XP SP2 SMB mount, as well as a local HFS+ formatted USB drive, and the bug surfaces every time the destination disappears while the Finder is moving something to the destination.


http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopard/
praka123
06-11-2007, 12:50 PM
hmm...wth?os x is not upto the expectation :?
phreak0ut
06-11-2007, 12:56 PM
Where are the Macboys?? Will they tell, even this is a good feature? :roll eyes:
mehulved
06-11-2007, 01:32 PM
Where are the Macboys?? Will they tell, even this is a good feature? :roll eyes:
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=651415&postcount=23
naveen_reloaded
06-11-2007, 02:11 PM
Yeah guys lets not call names here.lets just discuss...
gx_saurav
06-11-2007, 04:01 PM
Lolz...this is even severe then the Slow file copy bug of Vista :D
azzu
06-11-2007, 04:41 PM
^^ lol
OS X disappointing :(
praka123
06-11-2007, 04:44 PM
this is what closed source development means both for mac or windows.
opensource Linux or BSDs fix bug asap.So OSS works!
Gigacore
06-11-2007, 05:58 PM
Booooooooo... Even windows XP didnt have these many bugs :D
phreak0ut
06-11-2007, 07:02 PM
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=651415&postcount=23


Wokay wokay! :D
NucleusKore
06-11-2007, 09:39 PM
Tragic, how will you copy then
din
07-11-2007, 10:59 AM
@NucleusKore

That is not about copying, the data loss occured while moving (as per the news / source). It is safe to use copy till they fix the bug. Moving data on network - always risky. Using copy-verify-delete is better.
NucleusKore
07-11-2007, 01:20 PM
@NucleusKore

That is not about copying, the data loss occured while moving (as per the news / source). It is safe to use copy till they fix the bug. Moving data on network - always risky. Using copy-verify-delete is better.

Ok, that's right, I always avoid cut paste, copy paste is always better
aryayush
09-11-2007, 01:34 PM
This has already been fixed in the 10.5.1 update recently seeded to developers by Apple. It will soon be released to the general public. :)