Re: Moving files in Mac OS X
Re: Moving files in Mac OS X
- Subject: Re: Moving files in Mac OS X
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 10:52:11 -0800
At 18:00 -0600 12/2/2001, What does not kill you only makes you stronger wrote:
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Not sure if this has been covered here yet, but be careful with Mac OS X
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Finders' move command when used from one volume to another. It now
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actually does a move, and not a copy.
This is probably a good change (although it will catch people). It matches
the command line "mv" command (which, across file systems, actually does a
copy followed by an rm). rm, in turn, either does or doesn't delete the
file itself, but does forget about this name for it...if the file is no
longer referenced THEN it is deleted.
In 10 years, no one will care that move used to copy. (And mv's most
common use will continue to be to rename a file without doing any moving
either logical or physical.)
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA