Copying a large file from one machine to another in 2000 Prof

L

Laxman

The situation I faced is as below.

1. Machine A has a file test.zip of 50 megs(say).

2.Copy it to machine B by mapping any share folder.

3. Come back to Machine A, open the file in any good text
editor and make the size half (25 megs, say) and save it
in machine A.

4. Start Copying the same file from Machine A to B in the
same location of B. The OS will give a warning as the file
already exists. Click yes to replace it. File copy
starts...now when the file copy is in progress , press the
cancel Button. See what happens , the original file in
Machine B is deleted. Is it a bug or implementation
feature ....??

Also test can be done using a single machine but different
directories.
I am working in Win2000 Prof, Service Pack 4.
 
N

Nathan Hemmings

Laxman said:
The situation I faced is as below.

1. Machine A has a file test.zip of 50 megs(say).

2.Copy it to machine B by mapping any share folder.

3. Come back to Machine A, open the file in any good text
editor and make the size half (25 megs, say) and save it
in machine A.

4. Start Copying the same file from Machine A to B in the
same location of B. The OS will give a warning as the file
already exists. Click yes to replace it. File copy
starts...now when the file copy is in progress , press the
cancel Button. See what happens , the original file in
Machine B is deleted. Is it a bug or implementation
feature ....??

Also test can be done using a single machine but different
directories.
I am working in Win2000 Prof, Service Pack 4.
Click to expand...

When you click on Yes to replace the file the OS deletes the existing
file so it can write the new file with the same name. It then begins
copying the new file. If you cancel the copy I'm not surprised the file
is missing. It's not a feature. It's just the way it works.
 
B

Bob I

You told the PC to OVERWRITE the old file with the new file. After it
started the overwrite you stopped it so it deleted the new file. That is
normal behavior.
 

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