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Old 01-11-2006
Problems with Copying Directory
Hi, i'm completely new to Unix.

I'm trying to copy my "Pictures" folder, and all the folders under it, to a different folder "Photos".

So say "Pictures" has a sub folder "2".

what happens is "2" is copied to "Photos" like i want it to, but then a sub directory "tmp2" is made which contains a copy of all the photos in "2", and then there's a sub directory to "tmp2" called "tmp2" which has a copy of all the photos in "2" and it keeps going until my harddrive fills.

I just want to copy all the folders under "Pictures" to "Photos"
how do i do this?

what i'm currently doing is this:

cp -r /Volumes/Mike/Pictures /Photos
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Old 01-11-2006
Maybe you have a loop caused by a symbolic link? Try this command to see:
find /Volumes/Mike/Pictures -type l -print | xargs ls -l
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Old 01-11-2006
I tried that, it took about 30 seconds, and then nothing happened. took me back to the original prompt
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Old 01-12-2006
hmm, is the volume mount point a windows partition by any chance ? is this pictures folder on the windows partition ? if yes, then probably the folder has a link to tmp2 which has a link to tmp2. In windows the link is a shortcut. so probably the find may not be detecting it. just a wild guess.
 
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