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by derefr 808 days ago
> It's pretty clear whomever is leading MacOS dev efforts has been given the directive to not commit any new resources to the MacOS Finder.

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.
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geerlingguy 808 days ago
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).
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derefr 808 days ago
> 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.

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