Even After Fix, Windows 10 Update Is Botching File Operations

Post by SilasX » Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 9:48 PM UTC

SilasX wrote: post #48

xpaulbettsx wrote: post #46

This article is super deceptive, these two bugs are completely unrelated, and the one still standing is pretty obscure: 1. You're extracting a Zip file and intend to overwrite your own data 2. The data isn't overwritten, but it doesn't tell you about it 3. You delete the Zip file, thinking that it's extracted. I'm not discounting that this is a Bug, but I can't think of a time I would've ever lost data because of thi…

You’ve never edited a file and rezipped it? I did that a lot in the nand2tetris course, where you upload zips. This would be a nasty surprise when the other party carries on as if you send the old while you think you sent the new. Probably would have been testing my hear out on the course. And I don’t get your attitude. The data is still gone. The fact that it’s unrelated to the original bug isn’t any kind of comfort…

Post by vbezhenar » Tue, Oct 23, 2018, 7:02 AM UTC

pdimitar wrote: post #142

vbezhenar wrote: post #97

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I don't think that iMac would last for 12 years. I would save that money for Mac Pro which they promised to be good.

Well I don't have the money now so I am sitting and waiting anyway. :D I will keep watching and observing. Last I read, the latest Mac Pro is noisier than the iMac Pro which you have to fully load all its CPU cores and both videocards to even hear . To me the [lack of] noise is extremely important in a machine. (That's why I spent $400 on a PC box, CPU cooler and the most silent fans I could find, last year.) That, p…

Post by gmueckl » Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 4:48 AM UTC

wvenable wrote: post #91

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Maybe you can make computers easier to use by providing abstracted, context-dependent views of the data instead. Mobile phones rely on that prerty successfully. But they also do not merge these views with the single file manager the system has. Therein lies the true madness of the Windows Explorer in my oppinion. If you want to have a view for the barely computer literate average user, (ab-)use the myriad predefined…

Mobile iOS don't abstract complexity; they don't have complexity. Mobile apps are just silo's that can barely communicate with each other. Nobody working on a PC wants that. You cannot simultaneously give people the power to work on files between multiple apps, organize them how they want, and make it as dumb as iOS. You want to zip up your photos and email them to your boss? Good luck getting your photo gallery to d…

Post by ttty » Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 6:34 AM UTC

HelloNurse wrote: post #132

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Never happened to me with Windows. It's not the best, but works. Linux on the over hand it's a continuous installation of drivers and fixing functionality that works out of the box on my windows: graphics problems, audio, screen, usb, WiFi. Of course and then you try to install some module and says you have incompatible modules. Then you need to figure out what modules you need to change to match the version of the m…

You don't appreciate the difference between knowing what's happening to your system well enough to fix it and hoping that an "update" doesn't cause too much unrecoverable damage when it installs itself behind your back.

Post by lmm » Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 10:31 AM UTC

ttty wrote: post #158

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Working out of the box is nice, but what's magically fixed can be magically broken just as easily. Traditional Linux was more work to get working, but once I got it working I could rely on it to stay working rather than getting broken in the next update. (Linux is no different from windows these days, so I've moved to FreeBSD).

I don't know, windows just works most of time just fine. Linux is way more problematic, that's why I just use Windows.