Filed under: Windows, Microsoft, Commercial, Troubleshooting
Windows Home Server eats files for lunch
by Ian Dumych Dec 27th 2007 at 11:00PM
When Microsoft first announced its Windows Home Server product, it sounded rather appealing to many users. Rather than having to go through the trouble of setting up, say, a Debian server, it became possible to run a powerful server using a familiar environment.At least that was the concept. However, a distressing bug has surfaced on the Microsoft Knowledge Base. According to the article, Windows Home Server can corrupt or eat files created by several popular Microsoft applications, Quicken, Quickbooks and even Bittorrent downloads, yikes!
We'd think people might want to be able to reliably save such obscure things as pictures, presentations, and torrents on a home server, but maybe we're just weird like that.
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Neil T. said 4:26AM on 12-28-2007
Ed Bott has a good write-up here:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=348
Basically it's a rare bug with some quite specific trigger factors that are still being investigated. However Microsoft is doing the right thing by making people aware it exists, even if a fix is still forthcoming.
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RP said 4:07PM on 12-29-2007
It's odd that WHS has this bug, but apparently Windows 2003 Server (on which Windows Home Server is based) does not. They must have changed something...
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