I wonder if anyone can tell me what I did wrong or why I got seemingly tricked into losing 300+ jpgs when I moved them?
Here's what happened. I wanted to clear out about half the jpgs saved on my macbook OSX 13 version 10.5.8 so I plugged in a USB flash memory card and I dragged photos from the places they all showed when I got finder to search for all jpgs (the Finder seems to have lost its 'all photos' option beneath Documents and Movies in the Search For list) and when they were safely dropped onto the USB memory stick, I went back to where they were dragged from and moved all the copied jpgs to trash.
Once I'd finished dragging about 300 photos to the USB I decided they were safe there and then went to Empty the Trash as it was getting rather full.
Here's where the trouble began. Macbook OSX decided that deleting the jpgs from their source folder also deleted all the copies I put on the USB flash memory. I was horrified to find only 12 jpgs were left on the stick.
No way to recover. No facility to Restore my Mac to an earlier date but even if it did have such a facility it wouldn't get deleted files back.
So why doesn't this macbook warn me not to delete any of the source files until the USB stick has been removed?
I consider I have been sold a forgery in the operating system. It can't be logical to do that. Anyone know what went wrong or why it has no mug trap built-in to prevent loss of data? Fortunately the photos don't really matter as I have most of them saved elsewhere but it is nonetheless annoying in the extreme.
Thanks - I hope you can help.
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Plado
Here's what happened. I wanted to clear out about half the jpgs saved on my macbook OSX 13 version 10.5.8 so I plugged in a USB flash memory card and I dragged photos from the places they all showed when I got finder to search for all jpgs (the Finder seems to have lost its 'all photos' option beneath Documents and Movies in the Search For list) and when they were safely dropped onto the USB memory stick, I went back to where they were dragged from and moved all the copied jpgs to trash.
Once I'd finished dragging about 300 photos to the USB I decided they were safe there and then went to Empty the Trash as it was getting rather full.
Here's where the trouble began. Macbook OSX decided that deleting the jpgs from their source folder also deleted all the copies I put on the USB flash memory. I was horrified to find only 12 jpgs were left on the stick.
No way to recover. No facility to Restore my Mac to an earlier date but even if it did have such a facility it wouldn't get deleted files back.
So why doesn't this macbook warn me not to delete any of the source files until the USB stick has been removed?
I consider I have been sold a forgery in the operating system. It can't be logical to do that. Anyone know what went wrong or why it has no mug trap built-in to prevent loss of data? Fortunately the photos don't really matter as I have most of them saved elsewhere but it is nonetheless annoying in the extreme.
Thanks - I hope you can help.
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Plado