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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