Osxfuse: Error: could not copy extended attributes (but it is working)

Created on 16 Mar 2017  路  7Comments  路  Source: osxfuse/osxfuse

I installed the osxfuse.dmg(3.5.5) downloaded directly from the site, then I installed ntfs from brew install ntfs-3g.
The first time it didn't work but after that I re-installed that and rebooted the Macbook, it worked.

OS X 10.12.3
I tried to copy a file to a NTFS hard drive. After it finished , an error came out as the following one.

Using command cp ./install60.iso /Volumn/NTFS/

could not copy extended attributes to ./install60.iso: Operation not supported on socket

Then I tried to do the file fingerprint check using shasum -a 256 install60.iso It turned out the new file was 100% good. What wrong is that?

P.S. Using the Finder App on Mac to copy files would fail at last.

Most helpful comment

use rsync instead of cp worked for me

All 7 comments

Okay. I read from some articles about this. This turned out to be caused by the difference of file system. So here I can use rsync to replace cp which is a bit of less-relaxed. Hope we could make this better.

This seems to be a problem on High Sierra, copying to a rclone mounted drive.

I can confirm it's a issue on Mojave too.

any fix?

use rsync instead of cp worked for me

Or gcp --preserve=mode,timestamps works on my end.

sudo rsync -aP source destination

Was this page helpful?
0 / 5 - 0 ratings