bradwright · October 24, 2015 21:11 · Oct 24, 2015
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+1. Download the above file and save it somewhere (eg `~/Downloads`)
+2. Open Terminal.app, and go to where it's saved (eg `cd ~/Downloads`)
+3. Run the script, with the HDD volume as the first argument, eg: `python sleep-and-copy.py /Volumes/Thing/Path/to/itunes /Library/Local-path-to-itunes`
diff --git a/sleep-and-copy.py b/sleep-and-copy.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import os
+import sys
+import time
+import shutil
+
+SLEEP_TIME = 3
+
+def recursive_copy_and_sleep(source_folder, destination_folder):
+    "Copies files from `SOURCE` one at a time to `TARGET`, sleeping in between operations"
+
+    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(source_folder):
+        for item in files:
+            src_path = os.path.join(root, item)
+            dst_path = os.path.join(destination_folder, src_path.replace(source_folder, "")[1:])
+            time.sleep(SLEEP_TIME)
+            if os.path.exists(dst_path):
+                if os.stat(src_path).st_mtime > os.stat(dst_path).st_mtime:
+                    print "Copying %s to %s" % (src_path, dst_path)
+                    shutil.copy2(src_path, dst_path)
+            else:
+                print "Copying %s to %s" % (src_path, dst_path)
+                shutil.copy2(src_path, dst_path)
+
+        for item in dirs:
+            src_path = os.path.join(root, item)
+            dst_path = os.path.join(destination_folder, src_path.replace(source_folder, "")[1:]) # Lop off leading slash, otherwise the directory maker gets confused
+            if not os.path.exists(dst_path):
+                print "Making %s" % dst_path
+                os.mkdir(dst_path) #
+    return True
+
+def main():
+    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
+        print "ERROR:\n\tPlease pass source and target directories, eg:\n\t%s /start/here /finish/here" % sys.argv[0]
+        sys.exit(1)
+    (source, target) = sys.argv[1:]
+
+    if os.path.exists(source) and os.path.exists(target):
+        recursive_copy_and_sleep(source, target)
+        sys.exit(0)
+
+    print "ERROR: invalid directories passed"
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
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