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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="4.153.2.84"
+ subject="comment 3"
+ date="2012-09-19T17:32:13Z"
+ content="""
+I can only guess what this paste operation entails, but as far as I can tell, the error message and the deletion of the file both come from the paste program, not git-annex. 
+
+I know that git-annex assistant will not annex a file while it's still open to be written to. So my hypothesis is that the file is written to, closed, and then the paste program tries to do something else -- perhaps set the mode of the file -- and by that point git-annex has annexed it, and the program deletes the symlink. (So the content is probably buried in the git annex.)
+
+Could you build from git master and in your annex, run:
+
+   git config annex.delayadd 10
+
+That'll add a 10 second grace period for things to finish with files before they get added to the annex.
+Perhaps this will be enough to avoid the problem. Feel free to play with the number of seconds..
+"""]]