View Full Version : did finder just delete my file???  Jul 18,
2012, 04:20 PM This might be a server issue, but i just tried to
copy a file from a connected file server to my desktop via drag
and drop, and it deleted the file from both the source and
destination location!  I'm quite certain I didn't do anything
like drag to recycle bin or anything like that... but has anyone
ever heard of this situation before? In general dragging files
from this server to the desktop generally initiates a file copy
operation, but in this case the file simply disappeared. Its got
me paranoid because I've essentially had this file delete itself
twice now, and I'm feeling awful asking my coworker to keep
attempting to place the file on the server.  For interest, the
file was a large 700mb collada (3d exchange format). Preview is
able to open these type of files, and it appeared to be
attempting to generate a preview within finder right before the
file disappeared. Could preview have crashed from its size and
somehow taken the f