Re: Marriage pictures GONE!

From: Peter D (please_at_.sk)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:58:42 GMT

"NoNoBadDog!" <mypants_bjsledgeATpixi.com> wrote in message
news:efNPGt2oEHA.4008@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> In the future, use COPY to copy the files to a new destination. After
> copying, verify the integrity of the pictures at the destination. Once
you
> have verified that the pictures have copied successfully, then delete them
> from the source. Using Copy and Paste is dangerous at best.

Agreed.

> If there is a power surge or brown-out during the transfer, then the files
will be lost.
> Cut removes the files from the source and puts them in temporary memory,
> either physical memory or swap file, and then writes them to the
> destination. Any incident that interrupts this process will result in the
> loss of the files, as they are in "volatile" memory.

Not so. The files cannot be lost because the existence of the new file must
be verified before the old file is deleted. Maybe you and the other fellow
are misunderstanding the role of a disk cache when you talk about the file
being deleted when it's written to RAM. That is simply not how it happens.
:-)

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