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Join Date: Jan 2000
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This has to be my all-time favorite bug.
Many years ago, when I was working in the corporate world as an admin on a Windows NT LAN (servers and desktops), I tried to delete a file and got this popup window in response:
The only way to get around this was to use the command line to delete the original file.
Classic fail, as they say these days. 
(mods, is this the right forum for this?)
(Last edited by msuper69; Sep 29, 2009 at 05:07 PM.
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HyperNova Software, LLC
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Here's my all-time favorite bug. It's a photo of my Sawtooth G4 when I lived in Georgia. If you look at the bottom of the computer you'll see a gigantic cockroach between the metal inner case and the plastic outer housing. Took a while to clean up that gooey mess but it was cool.
(Last edited by cgc; Sep 29, 2009 at 08:34 PM.
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Moderator  Join Date: Jan 2001
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Originally Posted by msuper69 
(mods, is this the right forum for this?)
sure. I image a lot of these will be Windows-focused. 
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by msuper69
This has to be my all-time favorite bug.
Many years ago, when I was working in the corporate world as an admin on a Windows NT LAN (servers and desktops), I tried to delete a file and got this popup window in response:
The only way to get around this was to use the command line to delete the original file.
Classic fail, as they say these days.
(mods, is this the right forum for this?)
It's classic "NT doesn't tell you what it does when it deletes something," which makes it classic Win Fail (an oxymoron is pretty appropriate for NT, right?). NT has to write an entry in something like a ".trashes" structure on disk when it deletes something-but if the disk is full you're SOL. And of course there's almost no way to know about this without taking a 3 credit hour course in NT administration. More Windows fail.
Originally Posted by Cold Warrior
sure. I image a lot of these will be Windows-focused.
I'll bet almost all entries will be Windows-based. Mac apps tend to fail in two ways: "oh, that makes sense, I guess I'll just report that" and "WTF just happened?" Very few have the sort of messages that make us laugh the way the OP's does...
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