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ZDNet (mouthpiece for PC users everywhere) is reporting a major BUG in Leopard. Read it for yourself:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=906

In short, if you are "moving" a director to a second disk and there is a power failure, all your data is lost. THe claim is this will not happen in a PC running Vista. The author (in replying to comments) claims copying is different than moving since copying alters the creation date. That is not true.

He also fails to acknowledge that you have to consciously tell the OS to move, not copy, to a destination on a different disk,. The default is to copy.

What a bunch of BS! First, he's wrong that it is a bug. Second he is wrong that doing a stupid thing like moving without assuring a backup (as easy as copying and then deleting) is not good "standard operating procedure in ANY OS.

When called to account, he insists that the "creation" dates change in a copy. Again, not true. Creation dates do not change when a file is copied. In fact, even the modification date remains the same!

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Post by robstudio »

what a tool, I was questioning move/copy while reading that... then I read your comments... That jacka** almost made me reboot to Tiger...lol ... ok he can stay on vista then... good for him, I won't be joining him.
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I'll tell ya, once DP is updated (it WILL be updated to run on Leopard someday... won't it???) I will be deleting all remnants of Tiger ASAP. Leopard is truly an amazing OS - and believe me I am NOT an easy sell.
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Post by monkey man »

I'll vouch for that.

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Post by emulatorloo »

A hilarious analogy re this "BUG" over at dealmac forum:
GuidingByte wrote:As for the data loss bug, I also heard that there is a serious design flaw in automobiles. That if you shut the engine off while turning, the steering could lock up and you may run into a tree.
http://forums.dealmac.com/read.php?4,2719036

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