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Be aware of possible data loss when saving from iWeb
Authored by: Dave Andrews on Dec 19, '06 11:27:44AM

Of course it is a bug. A copy operation took place without your express knowledge. The destination folder had never been used before by iWeb, it contained information not intended for iWeb. I did not ask iWeb to copy its output to this folder, iWeb chose to do this - without warning.
If you don't think its a bug then create a web site and call it any of the following
'Users', 'Applications', 'System', or 'Library' and save it to the top level of your hard drive. When it trashes your system without warning, remind yourself its default OS X behavior!

WARNING - DO NOT TRY THE ABOVE EXAMPLE



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Be aware of possible data loss when saving from iWeb
Authored by: frgough on Dec 19, '06 12:02:44PM

I doubt that would work; you don't have write privileges for anything in System, so that will fail. Replacing Applications or Library will also probably fail since some of the files in those folders also will not be writable by you so you will not be able to replace them.

That said, the lack of confirmation of overwrite is a nasty bug.



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