Kai, A small postscript to my last email. Would it be possible to build the latest version of meld with my older GTK+ library on my machine?
Mark On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Mark Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > Kai, > > Happy New Year! > > After I sent my last email, I tried successive versions of Meld until I > found the latest version I could run with my version of GTK+. I am able to > run meld 3.14.1 as meld 3.15 requires the updated GTK+ files. With this > version I get the exact same error as with 3.12. Maybe it was fixed in a > version after 3.14.1? > > BTW, I am copying from one ext4 drive to another ext4 drive, so > permissions should not be an issue. > > Mark > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 1 January 2017 at 15:59, Mark Phillips <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> OK, I was able to download the 3.12 version and run that because my GTK+ >>> is only up to 3.10. >>> >>> This version helped a lot, as I was able to get things to work with the >>> "compare files only by size and timestamp". In that the list of files comes >>> right up and the missing files are indicated. >>> >>> However, with every "copy right" command I get an error - >>> >>> Couldn't copy /media/mark/ae408c7b-3c80-4b37-b46f-5898af5406c6/Movies/The >>> Nightmare Before Christmas 3D (1993) 1080p HSBS BrRip x264 YIFY.mp4 >>> to /media/mark/My Passport/Movies/The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D >>> (1993) 1080p HSBS BrRip x264 YIFY.mp4. >>> >>> [Errno 38] Function not implemented: '/media/mark/My Passport/Movies/The >>> Nightmare Before Christmas 3D (1993) 1080p HSBS BrRip x264 YIFY.mp4' >>> >>> However, the file is copied correctly. Not sure what the error is trying >>> to tell me, but as far as I can see there is no error. Perhaps a bug fixed >>> in a later release? >>> >> >> I think so, yes. In 3.13.0 we fixed a problem that looks like this, where >> we'd throw an exception if the file system you were copying to didn't >> support setting permissions, etc. Given that you're copying to an external >> drive, I strongly suspect that this is what you're seeing. >> >> cheers, >> Kai >> > >
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