Thanks William, I've used Dolphin for years and never encountered that phenomenon. Even so, that description doesn't fit what's going on here. 1.7 kilobytes is hardly a 'large directory'.
The problem seems to be with the way VirtualBox mounts directories which isn't an R issue, nor is the fact that copying from Linux to Windows isn't affected. But the fact that it happens only with rds files that use the name of the R object as part of their own names must be an R issue (that surfaces only when other conditions are present). Theories short of divine intervention appreciated. On Tue, 13-Nov-2018 at 02:22PM -0800, William Dunlap wrote: |> Perhaps you got bitten by Dolphin's non-modal dialogs, as described in |> https://userbase.kde.org/Dolphin/File_Management: |> |> Non Modal Dialogs |> |> When Moving, Copying or Deleting files/directories the dialog disappears |> even when the operation has not yet completed. A progress bar then appears |> in the bottom right of the screen, this then disappears also, if you want |> see the progress you need to click a small (i) information icon in the |> system tray. |> |> |> Warning |> New users who are not used to this way of working (and even experienced |> users) can get caught out by this, if you are Moving, Copying or Deleting |> large directories then you need to use the icon to monitor the progress of |> your operation. If you don't then any subsequent actions you do, may well |> use an incomplete file structure resulting in corrupted files. You have |> been warned! |> |> Bill Dunlap |> TIBCO Software |> wdunlap tibco.com |> |> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 2:10 PM, p_connolly <p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz> |> wrote: |> |> > This is getting more strange. |> > |> > I normally copy from the shared folder to the appropriate directory using |> > Dolphin, the KDE file manager. If instead I use the standard bash cp |> > command, no corruption happens -- at least with the limited testing I have |> > done. There also seems to be no problem copying from Linux to Windows. I |> > installed R-3.5.1 for Windows just to eliminate that possible issue. |> > |> > However, R has *something* to do with it because it was used to make the |> > .rds file. Just how the relationship between the name of the R object and |> > the name of the .rds file comes into it, I can't imagine. |> > |> > Thanks for the suggestion William. |> > |> > |> > On 2018-11-14 06:26, William Dunlap wrote: |> > |> >> It seems like copying the files corrupted them. How did you copy them |> >> (with R |> >> or cp or copy or ftp, etc.)? I don't see how this has anything to do |> >> with R. |> >> |> >> Bill Dunlap |> >> TIBCO Software |> >> wdunlap tibco.com [1] |> >> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 7:10 PM, p_connolly |> >> <p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: |> >> |> > [...] |> > |> > -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
