Forcing a Copy and Paste with Terminal
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
