Yes it's strange, I never had the problem before, either. It seems now
to be only the case for folders. A very simple
shutil.copy('a', 'b')
already fails with the error message.
I reinstalled Python, but that didn't change anything...
Regards,
antoine
John Henry wrote:
> 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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