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 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)
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@curtclifton Frankly, I'm a bit surprised as well!
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