I’ve never understood why, even on Windows 10, that you have to close a file before moving it to a different folder. It seems like an archaic holdover from more primitive days. Why can’t this issue be fixed? After all, you can now attach an open file to an email, something you couldn’t do in Windows 95. It seems like it would be an easy enough thing for a computer to understand that you want to store something somewhere else now, even if it is open.
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I don’t know if this is still the case, but old Mac OS would keep data read/write operations correctly wired up even if you moved the file. This could be used to get around early streaming protection where the video files were temporarily cached on disk. If you moved the video file out of that folder while it was still playing and you let it play to the end, the system would attempt to delete the cached video file, not find it at its original location, and just sort of shrug, and you’ve have the video saved locally.
This was a *long* time ago, though, and I don’t quite remember which version of Mac OS worked this way.
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