‘Massive,’ data loss glitch purportedly uncovered in Leopard
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 6, 2007 at 10:51am
A blogger has uncovered what he claims is a “massive” bug in Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) Finder that could result in the loss of data when folders are moved from a Mac to directly or network-connected storage, according to Reg Hardware.
According to Tom Karpik, the bug manifests itself when an attempt to move—rather than copy—a folder from the Mac is interrupted. Moving a folder off a disk essentially involves first copying it then deleting the original. Karpik shows that Finder fails to ensure that the folder has been successfully written to the target disk before removing the original. No matter what happens to the copy, the original is zapped by Finder.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
