I have a new MacBook Air with Lion 10.7 and have copied all of my data over from Windows XP via a WD USB hard drive (formatted FAT32).
I have started renaming the files in the Mac Finder now to tidy them up, typically making them start with a capital letter (eg "mac os hints.rtf" renamed to "Mac os x hints.rtf") and they go to Zero bytes and hence corrupt !!!
What is going on please?
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7)
Worked out it is nothing to do with transferring files from PC.
If you create a new file, eg "my file.rtf", then rename it after say 10 minutes to "My file.rtf" you will loose the contents of that file!
Serious problems in Lion's filesystem!!
After hours of testing, found out what causes files to go to zero bytes after they are renamed.....
It only happens when Time Machine setting is turned on. Must be something to do with the new "versions" feature. If you turn Time Machine off, the corruption does not occur.
Apple - please fix this... Time Machine is supposed to protect us not destroy our data.
I can confirm this. I have the same issue. I just lost about a dozen QuickTime references that were sadly not yet on my backup drive. Now that I've turned Time Machine OFF in it's preference pane, I no longer have this "ISSUE"
Apple - PLEASE FIX.
Using Mac OS X 10.7.1 (Build 11B26) I can not reproduce this issue.
Nothing relevant in About the OS X Lion v10.7.1 Update.
FYI
I am using OS X 10.7.1 (build 11B26) and I have ~20 zero byte files and Time machine has been turned off
RockyRoadRash wrote:
I have ~20 zero byte files and Time machine has been turned off
Are these really zero bytes or only indicated as such?
I have a number of files (applications) which are not corrupted but indicated as zero bytes or some other inaccurate size. I've reported this to Apple.
Facing the exactly same problem. No news from Apple?
10.7.1 fixed the issue. Just update to Mac OS X 10.7.2
Thank you! Problem solved.
Hi, I am on Mac OS X 10.9.2.
Installed Maverick and updates to numbers today. My time machine is turned off. After the update I noticed that one of my numbers file in a thumb drive is now showing zero bytes. There are other numbers file that weren't affected.
Any idea why and how to recover this file?
Zero Byte files after Rename
