Windows Writes but Doesn't

On 9/17/2012 11:25 AM, Mike Hockings wrote:

To me the fundamental problem is the protection implementation in Windows,
if it would just prevent update to the protected directories if you did
not have authority (like *nix operating systems) then I think it would be
fine.

But the way it allows you to appear to write without error to them
but actually write to a shadow directory will lead you to think that
things worked ok (like applying an activation kit) when in fact it did
not.

This is an interesting comment on Windows. I had an XML file on a mapped drive open in RDP 8 and when I saved it appeared to save correctly. However, my rights to the directory has been "downgraded" and nothing was actually getting saved.

Thus much finger pointing at the web developers whose app was reading the XML and kept getting the old values, and subsequent debugging. I was blaming RDP, but finally figured out the authority issue and it turned out he developer was the one who took away the authority...

Once put back, we were good to go.

Am I understanding this correctly?

Sam