Here is what I am trying to do:
In Python, I have a script that walks the directly the structure of internal and external local disks. If the file is an image, it copies it to a large disk.
Walk directories if file is image then get a checksum for it. check a database to see if the checksum has been seen before. If yes, done (continue) if no, determine where the file should be copied to on a large 16tb disk. “/volumes/big_disk/image/date/file copy file there update database with checksum and location
Here’s what’s is happening.
At some point, /volumes/big_disk goes away and is replaced with something like this /volumes/big_disk 1 /volumes/big_disk 2 etc. These directories can’t be read or written to. (Permission denied error 13)
game over
if I reboot the computer, /volumes/big_disk 1 /volumes/big_disk 2 etc. Go away and /volumes/big_disk is back and apparently OK.
Setup: M1 Mac 16 TB disk other smaller USB disks some of the smaller disks aren’t APFS the large disk is APFS
Happy to upload code if that would hep.
Thanks in advance !