Re: How does Finder determine when a file is busy being written to the disk?
Re: How does Finder determine when a file is busy being written to the disk?
- Subject: Re: How does Finder determine when a file is busy being written to the disk?
- From: Matt Gough <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:13:23 +0100
FYI, kMagicBusyCreationDate is 8:34:56am on 14th Feb 1946 (GMT).
When copying an entire folder, it only sets the top-level folder's creation time to this, not all the sub-items.
I suspect, but haven't tested, that anything going through FSCopyObjectXXXX will exhibit the same behaviour.
Matt
On 8 Apr 2010, at 01:13:24, Sean McBride wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 19:31:19 -0400, Lee Gillen said:
>
>> When copying large files (over a GB each) from a network drive to a
>> local drive Finder shows these files are busy by graying their
>> filename out until they are finished writing to the local system.
>
> Not sure if it still applies these days, but look through Finder.h, and
> read about kFirstMagicBusyFiletype and kMagicBusyCreationDate.
>
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