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On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:38:38AM -0600, Patrick Walsh wrote: > I did a fresh download of all of the directory tree, deleted the update > and update.last targets in coda, and tried doing the mv command above > (the third command) by hand. After the move there weren't any > conflicts, but the mv command returned some funny error messages. The > bulk of the messages were reporting problems with changing the > permissions, which I know I can ignore: > > /bin/mv: preserving ownership for `/coda/.../update': Permission denied > > But towards the end of the mv operation I saw a few errors like this: > > /bin/mv: cannot create regular file > `/coda/.../update/remupd/@7f000001.00000c94.00009927_at_director': Invalid > argument At this point some file is probably already a conflict (the create or subsequent operation created a conflict). So something is trying to follow the dangling link. Does it work if you do not run this script as root? JanReceived on 2005-07-14 12:12:30