Forcing a Copy and Paste with Terminal

Written By Chadwick Shoults
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This is a shorty, but a goody. Have you ever had a large amount of data you need to layoff to an external drive and then had it quit half way through using the finder's copy and paste? Well then have I got a tip for you! This method should work regardless of those finder copy/paste problems. Ok, all cheesyness aside here is all you need to do:

  • Open Terminal

  • type "cp"

  • space

  • type "-rvf"

  • space

  • type "\" (forward slash)

  • drag your source path

  • type "\" (forward slash)

  • drag your destination path

  • hit return

Chadwick Shoults https://creativevideotips.com
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