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Re: Cocoa File Copy on MacOS X
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Re: Cocoa File Copy on MacOS X

  • Subject: Re: Cocoa File Copy on MacOS X
  • From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 12:38:14 -0500
On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 09:35 AM, Andrew Mortensen wrote:

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Jay Vaughan wrote:
What's wrong with exec()'ing "/bin/cp" with appropriate args? :)


Loss of metadata. Use /Developer/Tools/CpMac instead.

And break your app for a lot of people that don't have the Developer Tools installed. Instead, the only way you should copy files is:

[[ NSFileManager defaultManager ] copyPath: src toPath: dest handler: nil]
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