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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Finder copies folder when I try to open it.  Why?
Date: 20 Feb 2015 20:14:07 GMT
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On 2015-02-20, Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:36:20 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote
> (in article <ckp9kjF31tdU1@mid.individual.net>):
>
>> Very strange. Are the copied folders named "OriginalName copy", or what?
>
> Yes.  It's the identical Finder behavior that you get when opening a 
> "stationery pad"  complete with the thermometer display while copying.  
> I posted a script upthread which displays the same behavior and doesn't 
> even call the Finder but gets the folder name passed in from the 
> Finder.  The dialog displays "Folder Copy".  I don't know how to tell 
> you to reproduce it because I can't figure out the distinguishing 
> characteristics of the folders which cause it to happen :)

Yeah. I get that. I take it you have run the "Verify" function of Disk
Utility on the volume in question with no reported errors? What does "ls
-alO" (the O is a capital letter "o") output for the parent directory
containing one of the offending folders?

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