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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Color me impressed!
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Finder was a bit sluggish, but copying from the command line was reasonably quick.
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I'm glad it worked for you. The Sony Reader is only a USB 1.1 device, USB 1.1 is 40 times slower than USB 2.0. I've generally only ever seen it produce around 500,000 bytes per second. Which sounds like alot until you start slinging around 41MB ebooks like
Princess Ai.
The Finder slows down things by constantly looking for the resource fork file (the file that begins with "._") for each file it touches. So each time it opens a file it is actually opening two files. Each time it displays a filename it did two file lookups e.g. it's doing double work.
The commercial application I've been mentioning comes with a graphical browser tool that speeds things up. They say that tool will be made available under GPL.