When Wayland Brown tried to find a quick way to initialize a number of floppy disks, he never expected to have his hard drive erased. Here's what happened:
After initializing one floppy disk in the Finder, Brown dragged its icon over the icon of another floppy and sat back to do some paperwork while the procedure was taking place. Shortly thereafter, he received a message that some items on his hard drive could not be erased because they were in use. By the time the procedure was finished, most of the files on Brown's hard drive had been deleted, leaving only those items which were active during the process. This included most INITs and those applications which were running at the time.
Not quite believing what had happened, Wayland rebooted from another hard drive and repeated the experiment – with the same results.
Salient Software, creator of CopyDoubler, and Fifth Generation Systems, the program's distributor, have both confirmed the bug. Wayland Brown has a lot of restoring to do.
HELP IS ON THE WAY
The company was quick to respond once the bug was reported on America Online. MacMonitor received a response from Salient/Fifth Generation within hours of posting the original report.
