MacOS Code Loading Automation

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I've been having some pronounced issues with corrupted files lately when loading CircuitPython source from MacOS. I just updated to MacOS Ventura (Beta), but I don't think that is the issue since I've observed these errors before.

Symptoms — my code only executes once, and then either the filesystem or one of the larger files turns into a bowl and a half of spaghetti-o's, and cp failing out with an error about extended attributes.

And then the other symptom looks sort of like this, but inside of a file:

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        if msg is None:

I've tried a number of fixes—this was the most helpful.

shutil.copytree has worked pretty well for me because it doesn't copy extended attributes, and so has cp -Xr.

xattr -r -c <path> works on the local folder, but when trying to execute this with a path to a mounted CIRCUITPY drive, I get a bajillion xattr: [Errno 22] Invalid argument.

The apple script and python script presented here both work

This is the second time I ran into errors because of all those pesky files (and I'd totally forgotten about the first time round by now.

In summary, don't forget about those dotfiles