That page says the bug seems to be fixed with OS X 10.5.1. Which version are
you running?

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Dante

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On Sep 26, 2010 10:25 AM, "Roger E. Rustad, Jr." <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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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