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Re: Terminate File Copy
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Re: Terminate File Copy


  • Subject: Re: Terminate File Copy
  • From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:12:34 -0400
  • Organization: Rogue Research

On 2006-06-28 11:12, Alan Smith said:

>I have been working a lot with NSFileManager recently.  First, it
>would be a bad idea to stop a file copy. Because if the copy is, say,
>half way done and it is stopped there will be a partial file left on
>disk. Unless you delete that the disk will get fragmented quickly and
>the end-user won't like this.
>
>Why you would want to stop a file copy in mid stream is beyond me.

Really?  The Finder has that functionality.  I use it fairly often.  For
example, if you start copying something and then discover it will take
10 minutes, and you have to leave in 1 minute, then its nice to be able
to abort the copy.

>In fact, what you want to do doesn't seem possible.

Finder does in.  Though probably not with NSFileManager.

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 email@hidden
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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