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Re: really weird move file problem
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Re: really weird move file problem


  • Subject: Re: really weird move file problem
  • From: Jon Hendry <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:03:26 -0700

Is there anything weird about the destination file pathname? Unusual characters? Spaces?

Does it happen with files of any size?

On Friday, September 21, 2007, at 12:11PM, "Jaime Magiera" <email@hidden> wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>Very strange scenario: I'm modifying .mov files at the Atom level,
>then moving the modded file out of /tmp and into user space with ...
>
>	NSAssert([[NSFileManager defaultManager] movePath:workingFilePath
>                                                    toPath:[self
>resultFilePath]
>                                                   handler: nil],
>@"could not move the media file");
>
>
>On a certain machine, when moving to a second partition, or a
>connected firewire device, the file move freaks out and just runs and
>runs and runs, with no errors thrown. There is a tmp file in the
>final location (the usual "ADFSDL-DUDTYDSHSO" type generated name). I
>have to force quit my app. The resulting file is, of course,
>unusable. There are no errors in the log. If I select a location on
>the same partition for the final file, the move works fine.
>
>At this point, it only appears to happen on one machine -- a MacBook
>Pro with HFS+ using GUID partition table. (However, code works fine
>on my MacBook Pro with the same formatting)
>
>Can anyone think of possible reasons for this? Any way of
>troubleshooting? I'm stumped.
>
>Jaime Magiera
>Sensory Research
>http://www.sensoryresearch.net
>
>
>
>
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