Failed to copy files into a drive (C:, D:) on Windows

[kimlimjustin]

I tried cpy and it's awesome! However, when I try it on windows, copying a file from C: to the basedir of E:, I got an error saying it failed to create the E: directory. This is the error message:

Cannot copy from `C:/hello.txt` to `E:\hello.txt`: Cannot create directory `E:\`: EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir 'E:\'

Hope it will be fixed soon :)

[kimlimjustin]

I looked into the code and I assume that is caused by this line of code:

cpy/index.js

Line 144 in 94fff3a

await cpFile(source.path, to, options).on('progress', fileProgressHandler);

and I noticed cpy use cp-file dependency, and I looked into the code and found this:

await fs.makeDir(path.dirname(destination), {mode: options.directoryMode});

which will create the directory (to ensure it exists) of the copy destination, which causes a bug in Windows drive basedir.

Hence, I think that this is the bug of cp-file, not cpy. However, I saw that there's already an issue with this bug since 2019, but not been fixed yet (not being maintained maybe)

sindresorhus/copy-file#36