On Apr 12, 2009, at 11:27 AM, bigbadotis wrote:

>
> Today I changed some filenames to have lowercase letters instead of
> uppercase. When I launched Versions, it showed the files as missing. I
> deleted the broken aliases with the intent of adding the new files.
>
> But Versions then went ahead and actually deleted the files that it
> had previously claimed it couldn't find.

Working in the web world, I'm constantly annoyed by the Mac not  
understanding that capitalized versions of letters are NOT the same as  
their lower-case counterparts :S

> Awesome. Many hours of work
> lost. This is a pretty bad bug and I am pissed right now.

Wait, isn't the file still in previous revisions?  You should be able  
to get the files back to the last committed state.

> Basically, if it says that it can't find a file in the GUI, Versions
> shouldn't be able to then go and delete a file that has the same name
> with different capitalization off your hard drive. They're not even in
> the trash. Just gone.

My guess is that this is an OS issue this might be gruesome to code  
defensively for.

-k-

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