Re: Copying large files with progress indicator

FROM : Adam R. Maxwell
DATE : Tue Aug 01 03:33:14 2006

On Jul 31, 2006, at 17:06, Mike Abdullah wrote:

> OK, that rather surprises me - why haven't Apple done a decent file 
> copying system in Cocoa yet!  Maybe I should file a request.
>
> So, I downloaded MoreFilesX.  It's readme says quite a bit about 
> the HFD+ APIs.  Am I right in thinking that the code will use the 
> HFS+ if suitable, but that it will still work for non-HFS+ operations?


You might want to look at FSCopyObject; I think it's more modern (and 
easier to use) than MoreFilesX <http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/
FSCopyObject/index.html>.  It loses xattrs on 10.4, though, 
unfortunately.

If you can require 10.4, take a look at FSCopyObjectAsync, which has 
a callback for periodic updates.  These functions are only documented 
in the Files.h header, though.

-- Adam