> The file system is Mac OS Extended Journaled (default as out of the box).
I ran a repair disk .. .while it found and fixed what it called "minor" problems, it did something. However, the repair did not fix the problem. I just ran the program again and the source is 47,970 bytes and target after copy if 45,056. Interestingly, the test I run just after the copy , i run a file compare: code: if showproperties: print "Filecompare :",filecmp.cmp(fn,loc+fname) print "Statinfo :"+fn+":\n", os.stat(fn) print "Statinfo :"+loc+fname+":\n", os.stat(loc+fname) results: Filecompare : True Statinfo :/var/folders/p_/n5lktj2n0r938_46jyqb52g40000gn/T/speakers.htm: posix.stat_result(st_mode=33188, st_ino=32205850, st_dev=16777218L, st_nlink=1, st_uid=501, st_gid=20, st_size=45056, st_atime=1365749178, st_mtime=1365749178, st_ctime=1365749178) Statinfo :/Users/rmschne/Documents/ScottishOilClub/SOC Board Doc Sharing Folder/Meetings/speakers.htm: posix.stat_result(st_mode=33188, st_ino=32144179, st_dev=16777218L, st_nlink=1, st_uid=501, st_gid=20, st_size=45056, st_atime=1365749178, st_mtime=1365749178, st_ctime=1365749178) It shows file size 45,056 on both source and target, which is the file size of the flawed target, and is not what Finder shows for source. Sigh. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list