I learned something in my lesson about what happened with my USB storage device (or USB drive) as I lost the few files.
One time when working on photo files, I downloaded the photo files out from my digital camera, and erased the photos from digital camera. Then, I was about to copy the photos to different directory path in my Windows XP platform to edit the photos.
Usually, My habit is to use lot of keyboard shortcuts such as COPY (ctrl + C), CUT (ctrl + X) and PASTE (ctrl + V).
I copied few photos to different directory path in Windows XP with keyboard shortcuts, and realized that I moved into wrong path - photos in USB drive path. I chose myself to delete the photos in USB drive, and went back to original directory path where I downloaded the photos from digital camera to copy the files to correct path.
Until I realized that few photos are gone in original path. I must have mistaken (should I say typo?) that I have used keyboard shortcut, CUT instead COPY. Now, I have to find out the way to recover the lost photo files, I went back to recycle bin in Windows XP - the photos are not in there. Surprised. Then, I tried to 'redo' to bring the lost photo files back, and it does not work. Hmmm.
Does the external storage devices such as USB drive put the limitations on XP operating system that cannot recover the lost files? I tried an experiment with USB drive on two operating systems - Windows Vista and Apple OS X 10.5. Vista have same situation with XP but OS X can manage to undo the deleted files.
Interesting, Apple doesn't allow me to click 'delete' button on physical keyboard to erase the file in Finder, (my assumption is that OS X disabled it). Instead of that, I had to click arrow point to file path with CTRL to open the sub-menu selections - to click 'Move to Trash', or drag the file to Trash icon in Dock.
XP and Vista can follow 'delete' button on keyboard to wipe off the file from external storage for good.
Well, Apple Mac wins.
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Yes you are right, Mac win and will always!
Also did you know that they have Time Machine in the Mac OS X 10.5.1 (Leopard) that can restore all the delete files in the past even a few days, week or months!. Too many to mention the good things about the Mac!
Posted by JFLMad | December 10, 2007 10:30 PM