Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!ads.com!jtn From: jtn@ADS.COM (John T. Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: 6.0.7 bugs (eek eek!) Message-ID: Date: 13 Nov 90 17:36:26 GMT References: <1T$^K8|@ads.com> <4642@husc6.harvard.edu> Sender: usenet@ads.com (USENET News) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300 Lines: 33 >>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!!! > >"Cancel" means "go back to the way it was before I started this >operation." File copy SHOULD remove the files. This probably needs explaining. The file(s) being removed were those already existing on the floppy disk. Since the source file being copied onto the disk were too large, they are not copied... HOWEVER... the files already existing on the floppy which were to be overwritten wre removed anyway. Whether or not the copy is acutally performed. Apple couldn't in their right minds design the system to do this so it must be a bug. Unfortunately I haven't been able to duplicate the problem lately so it might have been a transitory problem. Worth watching out for though. Hope that clears that up. -- ORGANIZATION: Advanced Decision Systems GEOGRAPHIC: Arlington, VA UUCP: kzin!speaker@mimsy.umd.edu INTERNET: jtn@potomac.ads.com SPOKEN: Yo... John! PHONE: (703) 243-1611 PROJECT: The Conrail Locomotive/Harpsichord Fusion Program