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Seeming to make copies
Authored by: Thorne on Sep 07, '02 02:26:50PM

I've noticed the following behavior, which may or may not relate to what you've observed.

When a file named "x" already exists in the trash, and the user trashes ANOTHER file named "x", the Finder briefly appends "copy" to the filename (before it disappears out of the Finder window) so that the two files can coexist in the trash.

I have not noticed this phenomena EXCEPT when a like-named file already exists in the trash.

Are you deleting same-named files?



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