How to abort Resume Copy on Monterey?

Another half baked feature costing me hours and hours.

I tried to copy the contents of a large external USB HD to my NAS storage.

All in all 1.4 TB of data.

The NAS drive provides AFP and SMB. I'm using AFP to mount the drive.

After about 1 TB are copied the operation stops obviously due to a read error on the source drive.

Now Monterey comes in with that wonderful feature of "Resume Copy" which sounds quite handy.

In practical terms it is useless.

When I try to resume it offers me "Finish Copy" or "Keep Resumable Copy". If I press on the latter I can not access the 1 TB on the target drive. The folder is gray and only offers "Finish Copy" or "Keep Resumable Copy". The target folder is also gray and I can't access the content if I connect via SMB.

When I now click on "Finish Copy" I get the error message: "The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to modify some items."

Bravo! So now I'm left with 1 TB of space on my NAS wasted because I can neither access it nor can I finish copying. I can now manually delete the 1 TB folder on the NAS and start everything again.

I'd rather abandon the resume function and compare what's missing manually. But there's no option to do so.

Who comes up with a time waster like that???

Anyone got any idea how I can make the folder on the NAS accessible and abandon that crappy Resume function?

Thanks!

iMac 27″, macOS 12.1

Posted on Jan 28, 2022 12:44 PM

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longlegcraig

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Posted on Jun 25, 2022 2:41 PM

Sorry Apple is not being helpful. This is definitely STILL a problem in June 2022.

I put 400Gb on our work NAS, and then the file transfer failed at 90%. It may have something to do with how the NAS is set to handle permissions for file read/write/execute while transfers in progress. a paused transfer isn't marked as "complete" so its in sort of a permissions purgatory. That is quite a bit deeper than my understanding goes.

Simply, my option is 1-resume or 2-resume later. You cannot delete the paused download the easy way. The files that managed to copy are FOR SURE occupying space on your drive.

To DELETE it:

open a terminal window on your mac.

enter this information (but do not press enter yet):

sudo rm -r -f

then drag your useless paused download folder to the terminal window. This will insert its path into the command, and you won't have to figure that out yourself. Note: there should be a space between "-f" and the inserted file path.

Press return. You will be prompted for your password.

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If you need to access something in the folder, it is possible (before deleting of course).

To access content in the paused download folder:

Right click on it, select "make alias" and then open that alias that will appear on your desktop.

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