When pasting a file "over" another file with the same name, is there a brief moment during which neither file exists?
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Mar 15, 2026188 viewsConfidence Score0%
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This used to worry me whenever I was replacing static HTML files in a shared web hosting environment. When pasting (or FTPing) a file "over" another file with the same name, is there a brief moment during which neither file exists? If I have on a web server, and I paste a new over it, is there a ch…
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Fix for: When pasting a file "over" another file with the same name, is there a brief moment during which neither file exists?
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It really depends from two things: How the file is being replaced and what the operating system underlying the WWW server is. Here are three examples to show how this makes a difference: A POSIX-conformant operating system using to update the file f…
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