Why preparing to copy

The originator thus has the benefit of sophisticated editing and correction prior to releasing the material for typesetting. An important attribute will be consistency of preparation, since the conversion of the electronic data to typesetting input will require a match-up of specific occurrences of indents, word spaces, returns, and other code and character combinations in order to change typewriter-oriented copy into typography.

Use the same number of blank spaces or a tab key for paragraph indents, but use each consistently. If an extra word space is inserted at the end of a sentence, make certain that only that one additional space is inserted at each point.

Check with the typesetting operator about recommended use of the quote marks. The open and close quotes are the same character on a typewriter, but they are different in typesetting. Page content loaded. Apr 19, AM in response to marslaw In response to marslaw Thanks for joining us in Apple Support Communities! We understand your Mac is getting stuck while moving or copying files to your external hard drive. We're glad you're here, and we can provide some guidance.

If your Mac runs slowly. If the issue persists, let's use Disk Utility to verify and fix any issues with your drives. This link provides step-by-step instructions:. Repair a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac. Asked 10 years, 7 months ago. Active 6 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 13k times. Improve this question. I can only speculate that it's scanning the files for issues such as being locked by other processes, permissions etc.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Art Gertner Art Gertner 6, 11 11 gold badges 39 39 silver badges 69 69 bronze badges. And the funny thing is that when copying from a network share this "preparing" takes more time when the actual copy itself! Some use cases of that list include: updating file system maintaining file consistency in case of a failure knowing the number of files so you can compute how much time is left to complete the operation, what percentage of the operation has been completed so far and draw the progress bar accordingly.

Gani Simsek Gani Simsek 2, 20 20 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. If it is necessary because of the way that NTFS works , then why can xcopy do it's job without it? Then why did you say that it is "necessary because of the way that NTFS works"?

I can only speculate about what Windows does when it is "preparing", but recall that it never did that in Windows XP, and third-party utilities e.

TeraCopy also have near-instant delays between starting the file transfer. Looks like I didn't clearly expressed myself. The list is necessary for the file operation, which is common in both cases i. However, the reasons you see that "preparing to copy" window are because of the graphics, percentage and time computations involved, especially in Aero theme and that's one of the cases where that list is used, which I think is the answer to the question.

Since there's no gui in xcopy or robocopy there are no preparing to copy computations. This is not true -- you'll get the same message on FAT