Re: How can I recover a (large) file that I have started to COPY over (rather than delete) ?

ship wrote:
On Nov 13, 12:14 pm, Malke <notrea...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ship wrote:

(snippage)

Either way it remains one of the most STUPID things about m$Windows
that
if you over-write a file with a file of the same name that the
system isnt clever
enough to formally "Delete" that file first (i.e.put it into the
"Recycle bid") .
And thus copying data from disk to disk remains a very dangerous
process
- simply because if you get confused about which disk you have
mapped to what location you will delete you g*ddam data,
apparently, for all time.

I'm very sorry for your loss but you have a misunderstanding about
how computers and operating systems work. When you overwrite a file
with new data, it is never "formally" deleted in *any* operating
system. This behavior has nothing to do with Windows and everything
to do with what "Save" means - in Unix, Linux, OS X, and Windows.

I'm afraid that it wasn't "m$Windows" that was stupid.

Of course, if you had Leopard with Time Machine or Vista
Business/Ultimate, you could get back the previous version of your
file. Since you don't, learn to be more careful in the future.

Why are you being so smug and patronising?

Look - dont give me this 'holier than though' information theory BS.
An operating system is
simply a tool that is supposed to be designed for use, and you know
it. And a perfectly
natural mistake while using any o/s is to copy something the wrong
direction.

But if I "delete" a file it goes into the "Recycle bin". Just how hard
can it be
to design an operating system to perform the same activity whenever
it is requested to overwrite a file? i.e. To go through the formal
motions
of "deletion" and only then write to the disk with the new copy of the
file.

If you would stop to think for a single millisecond you would realise
that
the answer is "not remotely hard". The problem is that nobody as M$
bothered to think it through.

Let's be honest - if there was a half-credible alternative to Windows/
Office
for normal business use 3/4 of the business community would jump
ship. The reason we stay is bound up with the concept of monopoly
and has nothing to do with merit.


Ship

Well, why don't you design an OS to do exactly what you are asking being
that it is "not remotely hard".
Since you have obviously thought it through where nobody else has, it should
be a piece of cake. You could be the next richest man in the world.
An operating system may be "simply a tool that is supposed to be designed
for use", but surely you are aware that the incorrect use or misuse of any
tool can lead to disaster. It may be a perfectly natural mistake to copy
something wrong, but as Malke pointed out, a backup would have saved your
data. Nearly everyone I know, including me, has made the same mistake you
made at some point in their pc use. I am sure that having learned this
painful lesson, you are immediately taking the necessary steps to learn
about backing up your data so that it never happens again.




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