Dumb MacOS question: I have a bunch of folders in various locations that need to be put on my network drive in various different locations (ie, not a mirror).
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@curtclifton oh gods no.
I mean, yeah, that would work, but that would also mean manually writing out each folder name, and destination folder name vs. just dragging and dropping.
It would be great if there was an easy pattern between the source and destination folders, but there isn't.
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@octothorpe you can drag folders into Terminal to “type” the path
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@curtclifton It feels like there was a hack back in the (very) classic System days that did this. I had a similar one for disk copying. By default the finder would copy in like 32k(??) chunks. This hack would read everything it could into RAM, then write that buffer. Eventually, I think MacOS 8 fixed that default.
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@octothorpe maybe queue it up in Transmit?
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@curtclifton oh, I do that all the time. It's SO much easier than writing or tabbing the path.
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@onikaze Oh! Holy crap!! I always think about Transmit as an FTP/SCP tool… but I think it also does LAN copies. That *may* work… now I have to dig up my ancient copy of Transmit.
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@octothorpe hope I helped, instead of sending down a rabbit hole.
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@onikaze Hmm… It doesn't work 'out of the box' in the sense that it doesn't use AFP/SAMBA AFAICT, but will use FTP/SCP if I happen to have that service running. That however is much slower, by… a lot.
Oh well. It was an interesting thought.
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@octothorpe maybe rsync?
don't know how fast it is though.
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@onikaze but that's not really ad hoc. I don't want a mirror… in fact the destination folders are very different from the source folder I'm dragging. And then I'd be typing (or dragging the source AND destination into some queueing app. That's just a recipe for disaster.
The Finder should just recognise that it's doing a network copy and queue it, with an optional 'run this in parallel' mode.
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@onikaze The best way to do this is really to hack the native finder copying mechanism. Hmm… I wonder if PathFinder will do this.
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@octothorpe @onikaze Is something in here helpful? There is mention of a freeware app that might do it: https://superuser.com/questions/328708/how-do-i-queue-multiple-files-for-copying-on-a-mac
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@CStamp @octothorpe yeah I just suggested that myself but it's not a built app and the link sends to a repository
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Looks like the venerable PathFinder app does EXACTLY what I want.
I used to love that app back in the day!!
Here's the video of an old version showing exactly the functionality I want/need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gp77LIdS4w
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@octothorpe @CStamp glad I could be of help? (by help I mean distracting you from the solution you had already arrived at)
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Friends, Path Finder is so dope. I forgot how amazing it was. I used it waaaaay back in the day, but then forgot about it (admittedly, it's a little much for most folks' needs).
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@octothorpe oh, cool. Didn’t know it was still a going concern!
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BEHOLD! THE RETURN OF ACTUAL LABELS YOU CAN SEE! (also with the option to do label badges like Finder in addition to this classic style)