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From: Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Subject: Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated)
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:33:29 -0700
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In article <20130412011550.GA80724@cskk.homeip.net>,
 Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> wrote:
> Or that the filesystem may be full? Of course, that's usually obvious
> more widely when it happens...
> 
> Question: is the size of the incomplete file a round number? (Like
> a multiple of a decent sized power of 2>)

Also on what OS X file system type does the file being created reside, 
in particular, is it a network file system?

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org