Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Nov 2007 11:12 UTC, submitted by trinitrotolueen
"This is something I never thought I'd hear myself say - or maybe I should say, see myself type - about an Apple operating system: Mac OSX Leopard was released before it was ready. This operating system needed more testing on more systems with more hardware, and especially, more software configurations. The days of Apple computers operating with just the Mac OS and Adobe Photoshop installed, and practically nothing else to speak of, are long gone, and Apple knows this as well as anyone. This operating system was not properly beta tested, and Apple's customers are paying for it, with lost productivity and inoperative computers."
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2007-11-04
First of all no one in their right mind would move a file to an external drive, almost every operating system I know (yes Vista too) would have a problem with moving a file to an external source if the source fails. In the least you would get data corruption. Why do you think that copying is the default functionality for almost every user oriented OS out there. You think its coincidence? Its there to protect the user from himself, and if Windows is any indication the user needs to be saved from himself constantly.
Sorry but you're wrong. Every recent OS will check if the file actually arrived before deleting the source file. So if you unplug the drive while moving the original file will still be there because it is not deleted. In fact if you had bothered to read up on the problem, you might have found out that commandline mv provided with OS X does not have this problem. As to all the people defending apple by saying this bug was already present in 10.3, wtf a serious bug like this not being fixed over 3 major versions!! That fact alone should prevent users to trust apple with important data.