AlreadyExists Error when copying Files

[lkyleo]

I keeping getting this panic when it starts copying files.

Am on MacOS and both input and output folders sit on an external Hard Drive connected.

The output folder is newly created and blank. Upon checking the output folder after the error, the folder structure is copied over, but only with this single file "._DSC00101.JPG", and the process stopped very time.

Can anyone help?

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Copying input folder to working directory...
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thread 'main' (30306) panicked at src/main.rs:93:62:
Failed to copy input folder to output working directory: Error { kind: AlreadyExists, message: "Path "/Volumes/backup/TakeoutFix/MetaSort_temp/Google Photos/Photos from 2000/._DSC00101.JPG" exists" }
note: run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display a backtrace
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[axus087]

Hi there!

I'm going through organizing my google photos library and I've met the same error with same conditions (mac os and external hdd) and I found a way to overcome it.
Firstly, I'd suggest you to make yearly folders bcs otherwise the process of handling the library is going to be pretty time-consuming.
Secondly, to prevent this error I used this command through the terminal for my input folder. Afterwards, everything went well.

dot_clean /Volumes/Expansion/Takeouts/yearly_folders/2013