is it possible to check if a file is done copying of if its complete using python?
or even on the command line.
i manipulate files programmatically in a specific folder on mac osx but i need to check if the file is complete before running the code which makes the manipulation.
It seems like you have control of the (python?) program doing the copying. What commands are you using to copy? I would think writing your code such that it blocks until the copy operation is complete would be sufficient.
Is this program multi-threaded or processed? If so you could add file paths to a queue when they are complete and then have the other thread only act on items in the queue.
check if a file is 'complete' (with python)