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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@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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Michael B. Johnsonreplied to Curt Clifton last edited by
@curtclifton @octothorpe from the NeXT days.
I literally do that many times a day. -
Matt Christensenreplied to CM Harrington last edited by
@octothorpe the not queuing thing is frustrating. I have timed it before and it’s almost always about the same manually queued vs letting Finder pretend it can multitask.
You could select them all then drag them to the root or maybe a temp folder of the destination. That will serially copy them all (as one operation, but serially such that if interrupted what is finished is there). Then move them once they are on the destination which is then just a quick folder change not a network move.
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Matt Christensenreplied to CM Harrington last edited by
@octothorpe honestly I used to use this solely for the preference to auto-resize columns in column view to fit the length of the longest name.
That is a daily paper cut in Finder for me.
I forget why I stopped using it…maybe some instability years ago? I could be tempted to try again…
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CM Harringtonreplied to Matt Christensen last edited by
@mattchristensen yeah, I’ve timed it as well, and from my data, there’s a lot of flailing. It could be because I’m specifically going over a network and onto winchester drives that exacerbates the problem.
Anyway, I just remembered Path Finder exists, and it optionally queues file actions.