Mac Leopard bugs are getting way too serious

by admin on November 6, 2007

in Asides,General

Most people who know me think I live on tech’s bleeding edge. As an accountant that might be right but as a tech user, I’m not. That’s why I’ve not installed Leopard, Apple’s new operating system. I’m glad I haven’t. Adrian Kingsley Hughes reports on a Leopard bug that will lose you data. It’s horrific:

I’ve replicated this bug on my install of Leopard following Karpik’s [see link below] instructions and the problem seems to occur every time without fail. This bug would make me vary wary of moving data across a wireless network to a remote system – an interruption to the WiFi connection could nuke your data.

Adrian points to Tom Karpik who has all the gory details. Now as it happens, I keep almost no data on my local hard drive. I have two LaCie drives, one 80GB, the other 500GB for data I want to keep locally, like music, movies and photos. Everything else is in the Internet cloud somewhere.

Will I risk a Leopard upgrade? Nope. I’m perfectly happy as I am thank you Mr Jobs.

Mary Jo Foley has an interesting piece on how Microsoft could make capital out of this latest Leopard problem if it could lower itself to Oracle’s Apple’s ad copy standards. Go on Microsoft, get Hugh on the case.

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Krupo

I recall a horrific case of a "move" operation gone wrong which affected my photos from my first visit to Venice 3 years ago, while trying to move the data onto a CD. Ian's mantra has also been mine since then.

Although of course these days I'm also much more acquainted with cheap and effective data recovery tools for such fiascos.

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alberto

It is obviously more reasonable to copy, verify, delete. Everyone can figure that out. But if a `move' op is offered, it should work well. This is one of the worst bugs I have ever heard. So the correction question is not `why do some users move files?', but `how is it possible that this bug has gone undetected till the final release?'.

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Ian Kemmish

Moving stuff across a network? I learnt not to do that with NFS 1.0 in the 80's. Copy, then verify, then delete. Always.

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dah

@Read: Holy crap - I didn't spot that. Thanks!

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Will I risk a Leopard upgrade? Nope. I’m perfectly happy as I am thank you Mr Jobs.

If you take the time to Read The Friendly Article, you'd find that this bug affects OS X back to 10.3 - so don't be so smug unless you're running something earlier.

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