There is a massive bug in Mac OS X 10.3 while copying a file. This bug can lead to data loss. The data loss occurs when you copy a file or folder whose name ends with any number or hexadecimal character. This problem occurs in Mac when you copy any versions of Apple file service, from server, to Mac computer or any other OS based computer or vice versa. The data loss occurs on both the client side and server side. On the client system, it occurs immediately after starting the copy process.
On the server, when you start copying the files, it displays an alert box “the filename is already exists, do you want to replace it now”. When you replace it, both the existing and new file gets deleted. After deletion of the file, it displays an error message saying “You need to restart your computer”. This bug affects all file services provided by Mac OS X.
Solution.
To resolve this problem, you need to rename the file that you are going to copy. You can also resolve this problem by upgrading your system to the later version of Mac OS X operating system.
The above method works in most of the cases. But if you are in a situation where you have copied a file unknowingly without changing its name and it has lost, then it may put you in big trouble of data loss. In other case, when you upgrade your Mac, it might possible that you need to format the drive and it can lead to data loss. The data loss can also occur if the upgrade fails.
If any of these situations occurs, it leads to data loss. In these circumstances, you need to recover your lost data in order to access them. You can perform this task with the help of data recovery solutions. For Mac OS X, these solutions are available in the form of data recovery mac software.
Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery software is powerful yet easy to use data recovery software that can help you in recovering your lost data in all possible cases of data loss. Along with the Mac OS X 10.3, this software can also recover the data from Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5 Leopard. Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery software can recover the data from HFS, HFS+, HFSX and HFS wrapper file systems of Mac operating system.
