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Cut & Paste is (was?) dangerous btw. Windows could lose your files: 1. Cut a file. 2. Paste it somewhere. 3. Hit control Z. 4. Cry because your file is gone
by chrisper 9y ago
Cut & Paste is (was?) dangerous btw. Windows could lose your files:
1. Cut a file.
2. Paste it somewhere.
3. Hit control Z.
4. Cry because your file is gone.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-update/how-to-recover-files-lost-by-ctrlz/74e7e588-e27d-4e04-8eda-5876ced6adaf https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1...
But it seems I cannot reproduce that in the current build of Windows anymore. So I think they finally fixed it.
- evincarofautumn 9y agoYup, I ran into this issue enough as a kid that I stopped using cut/paste/undo in explorer. If I needed to copy or move files around, I’d use the command line—which also had the effect of making files copy much faster (seconds instead of minutes) for some reason.