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Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated)

From Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Subject Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated)
Date 2013-04-12 00:53 -0700
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In article <6eeabeb2-e6dd-49fc-bd64-8de53965189b@googlegroups.com>,
 Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The file system is Mac OS Extended Journaled (default as out of the box).
> It shows file size 45,056 on both source and target, which is the file size 
> of the flawed target, and is not what Finder shows for source.

Perhaps the source file has an OS X resource fork or other extended 
attribute metadata.  shutil's copy functions won't handle those.  One 
way to see if that is the case is to examine the source file in a 
terminal window with:  ls -l@

$ ls -l@ test.jpg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 nad  staff  40359 Jul 15  2009 test.jpg
   com.apple.FinderInfo    32
   com.apple.ResourceFork  899489

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org

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shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 11:12 -0700
  Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-04-11 18:53 +0000
    Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 12:07 -0700
      Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-04-11 19:55 +0000
        Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-12 00:06 +0000
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-04-12 11:15 +1000
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2013-04-11 18:33 -0700
            Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 23:32 -0700
              Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 23:53 -0700
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2013-04-12 00:53 -0700
              Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 23:53 -0700
              Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-04-12 18:26 +1000
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 02:18 -0700
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 19:22 +1000
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 05:07 -0700
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-04-12 13:18 +0100
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 05:07 -0700
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 02:18 -0700
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-12 10:57 -0400
                Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-12 10:54 -0400
            Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 23:32 -0700
              Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-12 10:47 -0400
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 23:27 -0700
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-04-12 10:51 -0400
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2013-04-12 08:49 -0700
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-04-13 03:33 +0100
            Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-13 13:05 +1000
            [OT] Lying hard drives [was Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated)] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-13 03:17 +0000
              Re: [OT] Lying hard drives [was Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated)] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-13 13:43 +1000
        Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Rob Schneider <rmschne@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 23:25 -0700
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-12 17:32 +1000
          Re: shutil.copyfile is incomplete (truncated) Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-04-12 10:48 -0400

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