Copying a Mac App file

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JoshK(Posted 2013) [#1]
If I call CopyDir to copy an .app package, it appears to work correctly. My new .app is the same same as the original, and contains the same files.

However, the new copy will not run. If I open the package contents, the file "Contents/MacOS/myappname" Finder doesn't recognize this file as a Unix Executable file. What's going on here?


skidracer(Posted 2013) [#2]
In brl.mod/filesystem.bmx you could try adding a flags=FileMode(src) to start of CopyFile and a SetfileMode(dst,flags) at the end.


JoshK(Posted 2013) [#3]
This will copy files and retain permissions:
system_("cp -R -p ~q"+project.path+"/"+title+".app~q ~q"+path+"/"+title+".app~q")