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Troubleshooting • Re: A bug just made me losse many TB of data

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Early in the history of Unix numerous safeguards were put in place to prevent overwriting directories with regular data files. It looks too me like Firefox applied umask before realising movies was not a file but a directory.
Thanks for the background! And I think your diagnosis is likely correct. Nasty little bug in firefox :(

Statistics: Posted by bls — Thu Jul 10, 2025 3:23 am



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