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Originally Posted by dnanian
We don't do anything with Finder's Get Info - it's managed entirely by Finder. You can't rely upon that value to give you any accurate value of when the volume was modified by SD...
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How about looking at things from the opposite perspective: does making a clone without doing "Finder copies" exploit features in the Unix core of the Mac OS that are not endorsed by Apple's programming or design guidelines?
I know that measuring the size of every folder on a drive requires looking inside each of them and can take a long time. I suppose checking file modification dates and volume modification dates could create similar problems.