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damn damn damn

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 12:38 am
by Jonathan
an important note: deletion is a much faster operation than copying. don't attempt to do them in parallel.

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 1:38 am
by VLSmooth
Lemme guess, you were deleting the source data while copying it...

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 1:47 am
by quantus
good thing for .Oldfiles

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 2:07 am
by Jonathan
yes. technically, i told a coworker it was safe to delete some files after i started the copy. imagine my surprise when i found out he actually did what i told him to do.

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 2:31 pm
by Peijen
or you could have done a move instead ...

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:08 pm
by Jonathan
yeah, yeah. i suck.