Losing data after cancelling a cut-and-paste

[Howard]

Any way to prevent this besides doing only copy operations?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Sorry, I don't understand. Even if you cancel or something crashes the program you're in, the info is still in the clipboard. You should be able to paste it back or anywhere.

 

[lxskllr]

I almost always use copy/paste. That way nothing's gone until I'm absolutely sure.

 

[MadRat]

I see that in KDE and gnome but not in Windows. What is your OS?

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Sorry, I don't understand. Even if you cancel or something crashes the program you're in, the info is still in the clipboard. You should be able to paste it back or anywhere.

There's nothing left to paste right now. Are you saying that I can paste again if I cancel the operation? That hasn't been my experience.

EDIT: XP SP2

EDIT2: This is Windows Explorer.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
Sorry, I don't understand. Even if you cancel or something crashes the program you're in, the info is still in the clipboard. You should be able to paste it back or anywhere.

There's nothing left to paste right now. Are you saying that I can paste again if I cancel the operation? That hasn't been my experience.

EDIT: XP SP2

EDIT2: This is Windows Explorer.

The default action is to leave the file where it originally was in that case. Failing that, as long as nothing new has been posted to the clipboard and you have not rebooted, the info is still on the clipboard and can be pasted anywhere.

 

[Howard]

Hm. You're right. I just cancelled it on an ISO that wasn't particularly important, and Windows deleted the target file and (hopefully) restored the original. I can't verify its contents now, though.

Thanks for the help, all.

 

[RebateMonger]

It'd be awful unusual to lose data that way. I've been running Windows since 1986's Windows 1.03 and I've never lost data that way.

And, yeah, for those who didn't experience it, Windows 1.x sucked much more than Vista users could ever imagine.