Files Corrupted on System Restore

Posted by Yar on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Yar
Published on 2010-03-31T00:09:45Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 9:33 UTC
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I restored OSX 10.6.2 today (was 10.6.3 and not booting) by copying the system over from a backup. The data directories were not touched.

I am seeing some files as 0 bytes, and getting permission-denied errors when copying, even when using sudo cp or the Finder itself. Some programs, differently, take the files at face value and see no permission problems (such as zip), but they see the files as zero bytes, which would be game-over for recovery.

cp: .git/objects/fe/86b676974a44aa7f128a55bf27670f4a1073ca: could not copy extended attributes to /eraseme/blah/.git/objects/fe/86b676974a44aa7f128a55bf27670f4a1073ca: Operation not permitted

I have tried sudo chown, sudo chmod -R 777 and sudo chflags -R nouchg which do not change the end result.

Strangely, this is only affecting my .git directories (perhaps because they start with a period, but renaming them -- which works -- does not change anything).

What else can I do to take ownership of these files?

Edit: This question comes from StackOverflow because I originally thought it was a GIT problem. It's definitely not (just) GIT. Anyway, this is to help put some of the comments in context.

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Files Corrupted on System Restore

Posted by Yar on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Yar
Published on 2010-03-31T00:09:45Z Indexed on 2010/03/31 3:03 UTC
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I restored my OSX today by copying the system over from a backup. Most things seem to be working, but every single GIT repo gives pretty much the same error

fatal: object 03b45161eb27228914e690e032ca8009358e9588 is corrupted

I have tried chowning, doing everything as sudo or root... I have no idea what to try next. This would be a normal git question except that it's on many repos. Ideas?

Note: I'm using git 1.7.0.3 and I was probably using 1.7.0 before.

Edit: Tried with 1.7.0.2 and it made no difference.

Edit: Even when copying any of the repos I get this strange message

cp: .git/objects/fe/86b676974a44aa7f128a55bf27670f4a1073ca: could not copy extended attributes to /eraseme/Pickers/.git/objects/fe/86b676974a44aa7f128a55bf27670f4a1073ca: Operation not permitted

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