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Finder: Copy/Move dialogs are hanging

Submitted by mojo2012 on September 28, 2008 to Bug

Sometimes when I'm copying some files over a network, I get the message, that the there is a timeout. This happens eg. when my WLAN breaks down for a view seconds. Sometimes this even happens while copying onto an ntfs formatted usb stick.
Then the copy dialog hangs and it can't be closed.
If this happens during a webdav transfer, it may happen that the whole Finder really hangs. The only chance is to restart Finder, there is no other way to get rid of that copy dialog.

Maybe reprogram the copy/move functionality of the Finder. File transactions should not affect the Finder stability (and vice versa?)

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Not fixed

Discussion (5 comments)

abitgone wrote on September 29, 2008, 9:54am

You mentioned that you're copying ONTO an NTFS formatted USB stick.

I wasn't aware that OS X supported write operations on an NTFS volume.

Are you sure that you've not lost a confirmation/information prompt somewhere?

ebaur wrote on September 29, 2008, 6:10pm

Network hang-ups and copy dialogs are long standing issues with the Finder. It's gotten better over the years, but you'd think they'd have solved some of these completely by now.

mojo2012 wrote on September 30, 2008, 11:43am

Just installed ntfs-3g to get write access to ntfs formatted drives. Afaik, ntfs-3g makes ntfs drives available as some kind of network drive ...
Maybe that's the reason why it sometimes hangs.

MicrowaveDave wrote on October 20, 2008, 12:14pm

One of the most annoying things about this OS X bug is that most applications bring up a window saying 'The application xxx just quit unexpectedly' but the Finder doesn't. Many times have I dragged a few hundred megabytes of files to a USB drive then gone off to have a cup of coffee and returned thinking all the files copied without incident. It's only when I take my USB drive somewhere and find out half my files are missing, I realise that the copy must have failed with no warning.

ntfs-3g wouldn't cause problems with network file copying, because ntfs-3g only mounts local NTFS volumes. It has nothing to do with shared NTFS volumes, which are normally mounted by OS X using the SAMBA file sharing protocol.

mojo2012 wrote on November 3, 2008, 12:36pm

ntfs-3g does not mount a (ntfs) share! It mounts ntfs volumes. But the method how it does this, is in someway simmilar to a network mount process (eg. timeouts). But this has nothing to do with samba.

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