Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard - data loss bug reported by MacInTouch

   Ric Ford and friends at the MacInTouch website are reporting what
appears to be a serious data loss bug in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard:

   http://www.macintouch.com/leopard/movebug.html

>In Leopard, if you move (not copy) files or folders between disk or
>network volumes, and some glitch happens to the destination volume
>or your connection with it, all of the files vanish - both your
>originals and the ones on the destination end. ...
>
>[The bug] can be avoided by always copying files between volumes,
>then manually deleting the source files when done. ... avoiding
>this bug in the Leopard Finder should be easy[, as the] Finder's
>default behavior is to copy files and folders when you drag from one
>volume to another. You have to press and hold the Command key to
>turn this into a move.

   The report's authors express uncertainty over whether the bug "is
restricted to the Finder exclusively [or ...] in system services used
by third-party developers, [where] it could have much worse effects,
since users would have no idea when it might bite."

   Some additional background:

   http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopard/

Aron Roberts
Information Services and Technology

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Received on Wed Nov 07 2007 - 15:36:41 PST