Every OS sucks
Mar. 8th, 2006 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothOn the Mac, recently, I've gotten used to copy-pasting files instead of dragging them, since dragging is generally a 'move' by default which is almost never what I want to do. Unsure if that worked on windows (it does, BTW) I did a drag, forgot to right-drag, and moved instead of copying.
Then, without thinking, I hit 'undo'. On the mac, that would have moved the file back. On windows, it undid the 'copy file to target' operation but not the 'delete file from origin' operation. No further use of undo or redo was possible in either window. The file was gone.
Thanks to source control, I eventually got back the version of the file I was working with... which I hadn't edited yet, thank god. A while later, I was ready to copy the results over to the mac. Now, I never got Mac Perl to successfully create directories, so I right clicked on a folder to insert a subfolder.
Apparently, since the latest security update, that causes the mac to freeze up, requiring a hard reboot. Joy. x.x
EDIT: can't use the file menu either, apparently. System seems to be totally hosed. Thank you, Apple.
Then, without thinking, I hit 'undo'. On the mac, that would have moved the file back. On windows, it undid the 'copy file to target' operation but not the 'delete file from origin' operation. No further use of undo or redo was possible in either window. The file was gone.
Thanks to source control, I eventually got back the version of the file I was working with... which I hadn't edited yet, thank god. A while later, I was ready to copy the results over to the mac. Now, I never got Mac Perl to successfully create directories, so I right clicked on a folder to insert a subfolder.
Apparently, since the latest security update, that causes the mac to freeze up, requiring a hard reboot. Joy. x.x
EDIT: can't use the file menu either, apparently. System seems to be totally hosed. Thank you, Apple.
