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Subject:	Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?
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On Jun 29 13:39, Michael Ludwig wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen schrieb am 29.06.2010 um 10:25 (+0200):
> > On Jun 28 22:57, Michael Ludwig wrote:
> > > my list: Explorer failed to copy some files (SSH keys), which
> > > belonged to the user NT-AUTORITÄT\SYSTEM and could not be read by
> > > my admin user, so I had to do the following:
> > > 
> > >   subinacl /file C:\cygwin\etc\ssh* /setowner=michael
> > >   subinacl /file C:\cygwin\etc\ssh*key /grant=michael=R
> > 
> > That's a fine case for either using Cygwin tools to create the new
> > installation tree (cpio, for instance), or to use robocopy with the
> > /B option.
> 
> Thanks once more - I didn't know about this apparently very useful tool.
> Explorer keeps disappointing me by cowardly aborting long-running copy
> operations on the first sign of trouble.

And the annoying fact that it doesn't handle paths longer than 260 bytes.
Cygwin and robocopy both allow them.


Corinna

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