hansraj
In the zone
Guys I just read this in a book:
"Move or copy a file? There is a small catch to moving a file. The catch is if the
process does not complete the copy it will delete your file anyway. It works like this:
You right click on the file and select move. Or you right click on the file and drag it to
where you want it to go. Then release the mouse button and the OS asks you if you want
to Copy or Move the file here? You click on Move. The OS will copy the file into clip
board, then delete the original file. Then it pastes the file into the destination folder. If
some thing interrupts this operation you have just lost your file! It will be deleted from
the clip board because the os thinks it completed the move. Want to know the worst part
of this? You will not find the file in the Recycle Bin either! There are some file recovery
tools that may (note I said may) find the file"
Now till date I used to move all my files without bothering much. Even to the extent of 5 gb and above files/folders !!!!!!!!! However this reading has scared me. I always used to think that the mechanism of move is that it first copies and then permanently deletes from the orignal location. Has anyone faced any loss of data ever while moving.... would like to share the info on this....
"Move or copy a file? There is a small catch to moving a file. The catch is if the
process does not complete the copy it will delete your file anyway. It works like this:
You right click on the file and select move. Or you right click on the file and drag it to
where you want it to go. Then release the mouse button and the OS asks you if you want
to Copy or Move the file here? You click on Move. The OS will copy the file into clip
board, then delete the original file. Then it pastes the file into the destination folder. If
some thing interrupts this operation you have just lost your file! It will be deleted from
the clip board because the os thinks it completed the move. Want to know the worst part
of this? You will not find the file in the Recycle Bin either! There are some file recovery
tools that may (note I said may) find the file"
Now till date I used to move all my files without bothering much. Even to the extent of 5 gb and above files/folders !!!!!!!!! However this reading has scared me. I always used to think that the mechanism of move is that it first copies and then permanently deletes from the orignal location. Has anyone faced any loss of data ever while moving.... would like to share the info on this....