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Disk Utility.app manages to keep the OS running while make the disk exclusive-access.. I wonder how it does that.


It doesn't? Freeze when commiting operations.


I was musing about this comment:

> There is no way for Hyperspace to cooperate with all other applications and macOS itself to coordinate a “safe” time for those files to be replaced, nor is there a way for Hyperspace for forcibly take exclusive control of those files.

Maybe not solving the same problem.




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