Re: Duplicate to iDisk
Re: Duplicate to iDisk
- Subject: Re: Duplicate to iDisk
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:09:09 -0500
This looks like more justification for allowing duplicate only to
local disks. I'm still just thinking about it.
On Jun 25, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Ian Goos wrote:
To answer your questions, your experience is similar to mine. I
don't AppleScript the process myself. You may have better luck
accessing the service through a third party application.
I've had problems with iDisk lately but I'm not quick to blame the
service so much as my connection to the internet. When my iDisk is
mounted and the Finder exhibits the behavior you show of not being
able to be relaunched I kill the following program found by using
"ps -ax" in the terminal:
/sbin/mount_webdav -o noautomounted -o browse -a18 -vuserName http://idisk.mac.com/userName
/Volumes
After killing the webdav process, sometimes the Finder behaves and
sometimes not, but I can get it to relaunch and things are OK from
there on. Any files you were in the middle of copying might appear
as busy for a while after these actions are taken. I don't know when
but the service does change that busy status after a period of time.
I don't care for the Finder's representation of copying files to
iDisk. Small files are OK but any larger than a couple of MB act
differently than regular Finder copying. For example, copying a TV
show to iDisk, the Finder shows a quite impressive copy time by
rapidly filling up the status bar. The problem is that then the
Finder "closes the file" for a very lengthy amount of time with not
progress indicators. I suspect the Finder is allocating the space
first and then actually copying the data in.
When I can, I prefer to use Transmit from Panic to access my iDisk.
It gives a real world feedback of the transfer status. It also
supports AppleScript and Automator.
Hope this helps,
Ian
On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:
I have a script that 'duplicates' files from one location to
another. For no good reason, I wondered if I could duplicate into a
location on my iDisk. Did it work? Well, sort of ...
1. The Finder showed me a progress window as it copied each file,
but it was sooooo slooooooooooooooow.
2. My script timed out while waiting.
3. The Finder locked up. Unable to relaunch. Had to do a hardware
restart.
4. I looked in the destination folder on my iDisk ... empty!
5. I tried to eject my iDisk, it simply will not eject.
6. Had to do another hardware restart.
OK, so it does NOT work.
Is this typical iDisk behavior? or
Do I need to use another technique?
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