Vista bug discovered
I've discovered a serious bug in a rarely-used feature of Microsoft Vista. In short, Vista has destroyed the pictures on my site. I'm reloading the images to my site, using Picasa to manage the pictures.
posted by Rob Ryan @ 8:34 PM
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What happened?
Was it an IE7 and Vista security interaction from beneath hell?
No, it was far more prosaic than that.
The bug is in Vista's ftp interface in Explorer. I was moving a folder from my ftp site to my PC using Explorer. When I was moving the files by dragging from my ftp Explorer window and dropping on my local PC Explorer window (note, I was not deleting anything). During which, it became apparent that behind the scenes Explorer does this in two steps: First, it copies the files from the ftp site to my local PC; and then, second, deletes the files from the ftp site. The problem is that I was moving a folder "/pat" which included a subdirectory "/pat/images". When Explorer tried to automatically clean up the ftp site and remove "/pat/images", it actually removed my main "/images" folder. Therefore, all pictures on my site were temporarily destroyed. Hopefully Mindspring can help me recover these files. I've got the images archived in high resolution, and can recover from that if I need to, but that will be a lot of work. We shall see if Mindspring can work some magic.
I have moved my pictures over to Picasa and updated my blog accordingly. I lost a few pictures in the process (a few weather maps that I downloaded from weather sites real-time while bicycling across the country, only stored at Mindspring's site, and they were unable to recover), but escaped largely unscathed.
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