I use the copy function a lot and never have problem. I suggest that
you write a no brainer standalone test code and if it still fails
there, then you have a problem with your installation.
Antoine De Groote wrote:
> Google tells quite some things about it, but none of them are satisfactory.
>
> I'm on Windows, and shutil operations (e.g. move, copy) throw [Errno 13]
> Permission denied all the time, for the source files. It seems that this
> is the case for all my files. But what I don't understand is that
> yesterday it still worked. I didn't change anything on my system though
> (at least not that I am aware of). I restarted the computer several
> times to see if that helped, but it didn't. Also I can't find a process
> that would be using the files...
>
> Has anybody experienced this problem before, or have a solution?
>
> Kind regards,
> antoine
>
> Here's the code that throws the errors
>
> [...]
> for l in files:
> from_file = os.path.join(dir, l)
> to_file = from_file.replace(tree_top, backup_dir)
> try:
> if not os.path.exists(to_file):
> log('Copying new %s' % from_file)
> counter_new += 1
> shutil.copy2(from_file, to_file)
> elif int(os.path.getmtime(from_file)) >
> int(os.path.getmtime(to_file)):
> log('Copying modified %s' % from_file)
> counter_mod += 1
> shutil.copy2(from_file, to_file)
> elif os.path.getsize(from_file) > os.path.getsize(to_file):
> log('Sizes differ, but not rest: Copying %s' %
> from_file)
> counter_special += 1
> shutil.copy2(from_file, to_file)
> elif os.path.getsize(from_file) < os.path.getsize(to_file):
> log('Orig file smaller than backup file: Copying
> %s' % from_file)
> counter_special += 1
> shutil.copy2(to_file, backup_dir+'DIFF_SIZE')
> shutil.copy2(from_file, to_file)
> else:
> #log('not treated: %s' % l)
> pass
>
> except (OSError, IOError), e:
> not_accessible += 1
> print e
> [...]
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