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From: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" <lavr@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
To: "cygwin@kosowsky.org" <cygwin@kosowsky.org>,
	"René Berber" <rene.berber@gmail.com>
Cc: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Renaming (with 'mv') very large files is SLOW
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:51:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM8PR09MB70957D4469EA2E644410B877A5259@DM8PR09MB7095.namprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25079.65064.763368.222635@consult.pretender>

> 
> In my case the directory (where I renamed the file) is on my C-drive.
>

If the file is currently open for access, the move can turn out to be a copy, actually.

Check open files to make sure whatever you are moving is not being opened / accessed from any other program.

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI


  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-31 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-31 14:52 cygwin
2022-01-31 14:59 ` Eliot Moss
2022-01-31 15:13   ` René Berber
2022-01-31 15:20     ` cygwin
2022-01-31 15:51       ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] [this message]
2022-01-31 15:17   ` cygwin
2022-01-31 21:36     ` Adam Dinwoodie
2022-02-02 17:09       ` L A Walsh
2022-02-01  8:47     ` Andrey Repin

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