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Chiageraldine Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

MIssing to it vs Missing in it

Please help me out in correcting the sentence..

If you remove the disc while in the process of copying files, there might be some data MISSING IN / MISSING TO it.

Thanks a lot. What is the difference between the usage of missing in and missing to?
  

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Hi, If you remove the disc while in the process of copying files to it, there might be some data MISSING IN / MISSING TO it. missing ( on it) . We normally speak of data on a disk.

— Clive

  • Hi, If you remove the disc while in the process of copying files to it, there might be some data MISSING IN / MISSING TO it.
  • missing ( on it) .
  • We normally speak of data on a disk.
  • It seems to me that 'might' is not appropriate.
  • Some data will definitely be missing.
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Hi,

If you remove the disc while in the process of copying files to it, there might be some data MISSING IN / MISSING TO it. missing (on it) .



We normally speak of data on a disk.



It seems to me that 'might' is not appropriate. Some data will definitely be missing.



Clive
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oh..

what if i mean to say: information missing in the file itself (and not on the disc)? should i still use "MISSING ON IT"?


thank you! so i should say copying files TO it... now i know..
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Hi,

I'd say this.

If you remove the disk while copying files to it, there might be some data missing from one of the files, or there might be some (complete) files missing.



We normally speak of data in a file.





We normally speak of data missing from a file.



Clive


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