I almost always just move stuff from the command line or use OS X's copy command, but for whatever reason, I decided to test NTFS-3g on my new terabyte Western Digital Passport drive. (I have used NTFS-3g on Linux a lot and was curious how it worked with NTFS on OS X.)
I installed NTFS-3g, made sure it showed up in System Preferences, and then mounted the terabyte drive (had to restart OSX's Finder before it would start) Long story short, when I unplugged the power from my computer, the WD drive unmounted and then remounted, LOSING ALL MY FILES. I did not simply drag and drop them (because that simply copies), but rather pushed the command button to drag and drop (this moves them). When the drive unmounted by accident when the power source went to battery, I lost all my files. They are not in the source or destination folder. All that was in my USB Western Digital drive were "zero kb" alias files (which look like "shortcut" files on Windows 7). For those interested, here is likely what happened. http://www.macintouch.com/leopard/movebug.html (Fortunately it was just music and movies, but others using Mac and NTFS-3g might wanna take note. Those wanting to flame me for not doing using rsync or equiv...well, flame on! LOL)
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