Re:macOS Finder is still bad at network file copies
by geerlingguy on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @11:08PM
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This is both a blessing (when it actually works on a huge transfer) and a curse (when things are being weird, usually network issues or a flaky remote connection, and you can't remove the weird greyed-out folder).
Re:macOS Finder is still bad at network file copies
by derefr on Thursday April 04, 2024 @12:09AM
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> and you can't remove the weird greyed-out folder
I'm not sure I've run into this state, but I would guess it would work to toggle your wi-fi off to trip the folder over into the "transfer failed" state (where it's no longer greyed out, and instead displays the little "Retry" emblem on the filename), and then delete it.
Funny to say, because I just noticed the other day that as of the latest macOS version, Finder directory copies now have some kind of progress metadata (as an xattr of the top level copied folder?) that allows you to cancel [or presumably fail due to network loss] and then later resume copies.