A Finder Bug?
2006-10-23
I tried to move some large files from one place on my hard drive to another today and found what looks to me like a bug in the 10.4.8 Finder. A move like that should be quick: all it does is move pointers around in the filing system. None of the file data is copied.
But I got a dialog that showed it was copying. So I cancelled that, and tried again, this time making sure that I really didn't hold Option down to turn a move into a copy. But even without Option I got the green + showing that a copy was going to take place. Huh?
Here is the bug: if you try to move a bunch of files and at least one of them is locked, the whole list of files is copied to the new destination, not just the locked ones that cannot be deleted after the copy. I find it hard to believe that this is the intended behavior.
But I got a dialog that showed it was copying. So I cancelled that, and tried again, this time making sure that I really didn't hold Option down to turn a move into a copy. But even without Option I got the green + showing that a copy was going to take place. Huh?
Here is the bug: if you try to move a bunch of files and at least one of them is locked, the whole list of files is copied to the new destination, not just the locked ones that cannot be deleted after the copy. I find it hard to believe that this is the intended behavior.
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