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Trouble moving large directories
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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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?
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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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.
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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.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
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In the terminal:
cp -Rv /path/to/source /path/to/destination
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Originally Posted by mduell
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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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Will cp resolve name conflicts caused by case insensitivity?
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Chuck
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
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I saw the OP mention it, but I don't really see how case sensitivity is an issue here.
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