Fake Bill Gate’s Vista Bug of the Week: Copying Zipped Files to FTP
Today, I noticed a bug in Vista. If you open up a .zip and copy (either through ctrl-v or drag) the contents into an ftp location opened with windows explorer, you won’t get any dialogue boxes at all (no error dialogues, and no replace-all dialogues), and you can’t do anything with either folder (no selecting or deselecting files, or even minimizing the windows). The windows both lock up, although files are clearly appearing in the ftp window.
And the copy seems to take forever… much longer than if you just copied the files out of the zip and then uploaded them. I’m guessing that it takes so long because the zip extractor and file uploader are waiting on each other left and right instead of doing it all in 2 batches. Then again, I wouldn’t really know, because I haven’t seen code since the 1980s when Steve Jobs and I were working on some stuff and he tried to claim that I stole it from him to build my gajillion dollar empire (Zuckerberg, I’m know how you feel). The worst part of this bug is that you don’t get the transfer status dialogue box either, so you can’t even cancel the transfer (or see the current status). Luckily, when I was uploading, some error occurred and I didn’t have to sit through the excruciatingly long process (once again, I couldn’t see what the error was because the dialogue box was suppressed).
This happens even on Vista SP1.
Looks like we’ll have a programmer to sacrifice to Ballmer.
