02-19-2010, 09:58 PM
Lew Zealand wrote:
[quote=Zoidberg]
[quote=PeterB]
I am not a SL user yet, so I don't know if this has been fixed/improved in the snowy cat, but... how about finally adding smart copy options in the Finder??? That was possible in OS9, but seemingly not in X. And there are a bunch of other Finder bugs that need to be fixed too.
PeterB -- I thought we had all the ones I had gotten used to over the years. I've also seen some add-ons that might bring the functionality to bear; what kind of smart copy options do you mean?
These are the options I *really* need.
How about an option to *continue* the copy after a file error and log the damn error? Linux does this.
How about an option to replace only changed items in subfolders?
Yup, Lew has gotten mostly what I would have said ... in OS9, you could use Smart Copy (from SmartAgent software) to do a variety of things; for example, completely replace target with source (a "normal" copy), or compare target and source and change both to match. Right now in OS X you can do this with a few different tools including CCC, SuperDuper, rsync, etc., but it's not Finder-level, nor is it particularly intuitive. And Lew is also correct that when it encounters a problem in the copying process, it just stops. I've also found that, in such an instance, it will even incorrectly copy things, thus destroying the target.
More info:
http://macosx.com/forums/apple-news-rumo...x-1-a.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/15846/20...agent.html