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From: mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
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Subject: Re: 6.0.7 bugs (eek eek!)
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Date: 8 Nov 90 22:06:37 GMT
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In article <1T$^K8|@ads.com> jtn@ADS.COM (John T. Nelson) writes:
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>Well after using 6.0.7 for about an hour I see that I've already run into some problems/bugs.  Here's what I've found:
>
>1) Copy File is broken.  Put a floppy in the drive and try copying a
>file from your hard disk to the floppy.  Make sure that the file you
>are copying is LARGER than the capacity of the target floppy.
>Dragging the file to the floppy starts the copy and the system
>complains that the disk is full.  So far so good.  Click "Cancel."
>The copy is terminated but the files(s) on the floppy are removed!!!
>
>Previous versions of the system complained and canceld the copy but
>did NOT remove the target files unless there was clearly enough space.
>Now the files are removed whether or not the copy can be performed.
>
>This is clearly inexcusable.  If it isn't broken ... don't fix it.
>

  This wasn't terribly clear to me.  Do you mean that if you tried to copy
a bunch of files to the floppy, and you ran out of space in the middle of
the copy operation, Finder deletes the files that were successfully copied
before you ran out of disk space?
  If this is what you mean, then it's really not a bug, but a change in the
interpretation of "Cancel".  The word "cancel" officially means that the user
wishes to be returned to the state he was in before he started this operation.
Since those files weren't there before he started the copy, those files, by
this interpretation, shouldn't be there after the copy failed.  Perhaps the
name of the button should be changed to "Stop" and those files that were
successfully copied can be left.

>2) Set Aside is gone.  Why would Apple remove a perfectly decent
>feature with the utility that Set Aside had?  This was the one reason
>that I upgraded to the new beta version of MultiFinder.

  The Set Aside feature was only available in MultiFinder 6.1b7 and 6.1b9,
which came with SADE.  The version of MultiFinder under 6.0.7 is 6.1.7, or
just 6.1.  Either version is "newer" than the beta version you had, so the
Installer replaced the SADE MultiFinder you had with the 6.0.7 MultiFinder.
  Again, this isn't a bug, but how it's always worked.

>
>3) Sometimes the "save" or default buttons are not highlighted.
>Sometimes they are.  Its strange.  Button highlighting comes and goes.
>This indicates perhaps a problem with my particular system and
>combination of inits but I tend to think its a problem with 6.0.7.
>
>4) Crashes.  Something funny is going on with memory which causes the
>machine to crash just a tad more than normal.  Nothing serious.  It's
>just that I've had one or two crashes just "happen" for no particular
>reason.
>
>

  I haven't seen these two, so I can't say anything one way or another
about them.

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