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Failsafe copying

All I want for Christmas (a month late, but let’s assume OS X Leopard is Christmas :P ) is an operating system that copies something from location A to location B, without choking in the middle. Do what you can, then give me a list at the end of what didn’t work. Or prompt me to continue or not. None of this waiting 3 hours for something to copy only to have one of the last 500 files not copy, then have the whole process stop. And I want it standard. filesync.exe is OK on windows (but takes too long), but there is nothing for Mac.
It should be standard.

End Rant.

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3 Responses to “Failsafe copying”

  1. pretzel Says:
    January 16th, 2007 at 11:26 am

    Um. You do know that that is not an OS thing? cp is just another program. Really, if you want something to do that, then write it yourself. It shouldn’t take more than an hour, even to revise the C.

    Btw, I saw Gentoo packages for OSX. I’m sure someone has written something like that. Actually, i’m pretty sure wget does resumes!

  2. pretzel Says:
    January 16th, 2007 at 11:26 am

    Linky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_GNU/Linux#Portability

  3. pretzel Says:
    January 16th, 2007 at 11:27 am

    More linky: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/

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