Copy files Problem?

[JohannesBierer]

Can't copy files?

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:

import shutil, os, sys

src = r"R:\natura 2000\8847.04 MaP\6417-341_Weschnitz_Bergstrasse_Odenwald"
dest = "H:\\test"

ret = os.access(src, os.F_OK)
print "F_OK - return value %s"% ret

ret = os.access(src, os.R_OK)
print "R_OK - return value %s"% ret

ret = os.access(src, os.W_OK)
print "W_OK - return value %s"% ret

ret = os.access(src, os.X_OK)
print "X_OK - return value %s"% ret

shutil.copyfile(src, dest)

F_OK - return value True

R_OK - return value True

W_OK - return value True

X_OK - return value True

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "R:\Karto\zGIS\Python\OrdnerKopieren.py", line 86, in <module>

    shutil.copyfile(src, dest)

  File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\lib\shutil.py", line 81, in copyfile

    with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'R:\\natura 2000\\8847.04 MaP\\6417-341_Weschnitz_Bergstrasse_Odenwald'

Any idea why?

[XanderBakker]

From the documentation:

shutil.copyfile(src, dst)

Copy the contents (no metadata) of the file named src to a file named dst. dst must be the complete target file name; look at copy() for a copy that accepts a target directory path.

[JohannesBierer]

Thanks, but didn't helped. shutil.move does work?

Do u know how to print information about copy speed?

[XanderBakker · Accepted solution]

If it is a matter of speeding up the copy process of large files, you may want to look at this article: Faster Python File Copy - Blumetech's Tech Blog

If you want to record the time it took to copy the file, you can record the current time just before and just after and determine the timedelta or read the post by Owen Earley‌: https://community.esri.com/thread/119781#448946

[JohannesBierer]

Thanks Xander.

Nontheless this was the best solution for me:

if sys.platform == 'win32':

    os.system('xcopy "%s" "%s"' % (src, dest) + " /Y /M /S /E")

else:

    shutil.copy(src, dest)