Friday, November 9, 2007

Leopard bugs: don't move, just copy.

MacDailyNews reports on a problem when moving data from a Mac to another hard drive in a network. Tom Kaprik identified the problem as the loss of data whenever a hard drive in a network a user is moving files to suddenly becomes disconnected.

When a Mac user drags a file to another hard drive the file gets copied and not moved. Only by pressing the command key while dragging the file to another location causes it to be moved.

This bug is a headache when you are into moving files a lot. A practical advice is to not press the command key. Instead of moving files, it's probably better to copy it, verify the copied file and then delete the original.

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