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Trouble moving large directories
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drspock
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Jul 17, 2007, 01:09 PM
 
Being a good little computer user, when my macbook died, I had a nice backup of all my music on a NAS. Now I'd like to move the music back to my MacBook (actually, external hard drive, but still faster), but finder keeps choking. It's about 35,000 files and ~130 GB, but mainly the issue seems to be different file systems with different naming conventions (case sensitive vs not). My question:
Are there any fault tolerant solutions for this kind of copying? I tried rsyncx, and although it ran all night, it only copied 40 artist directories (of 2,800). Am I just out of luck?
     
Suikolove
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Jul 17, 2007, 01:58 PM
 
What about moving a bit at a time? I'm sure the time you'd waste doing that would be less than the time you'd waste trying to move it all at once.
     
drspock  (op)
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Jul 17, 2007, 03:01 PM
 
A viable option. Also a chance to whip up a little ruby script to do it. I was just hoping for a more elegant solution.
     
mduell
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Jul 17, 2007, 05:26 PM
 
In the terminal:
cp -Rv /path/to/source /path/to/destination
     
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Jul 18, 2007, 10:43 AM
 
Originally Posted by mduell View Post
In the terminal:
cp -Rv /path/to/source /path/to/destination
Seconded. You have just experienced one of those "Fix The Friendly Finder"- moments that may or may not be addressed in the 'New Finder' in Leopard.
     
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Jul 18, 2007, 10:55 AM
 
Will cp resolve name conflicts caused by case insensitivity?
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Jul 18, 2007, 05:49 PM
 
I saw the OP mention it, but I don't really see how case sensitivity is an issue here.
     
   
 
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