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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Gassee joins the fray
Date: 21 Jan 2015 17:06:33 GMT
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On 2015-01-21, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> Okay, so one time? In band camp? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> was all, like:
>
>> rewind a few years, and Apple was populated by A-listers because Apple
>> managemenet hired the best of the best.
>
> Was this before or after the iTunes update that deleted some people's
> external hard drives if they named them very very stupidly?

In fairness, it wasn't that the hard drives were named badly, but simply
that the hard drive names contained *spaces*. iTunes issued some
commands in a shell without properly quoting the relevant paths. The
spaces in the name along with the omission of quoting caused the shell
to incorrectly interpret the path as two separate paths. Quoting paths
in shell commands is a long-known best practice that should have been
caught; but mistakes do happen - even to the best of us.

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