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title: "mlab-builtins-files-transfer — Mova code model"
description: "Mova code model of mlab/src/builtins/files.rs: components with their labels, obernants and the model text."
url: "https://groupants.elamur.ai/free/en/mova/mlab/src/builtins/files.rs.groupant/transfer.groupant/"
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# mlab-builtins-files-transfer

The groupant beside mlab/src/builtins/files.rs in the Mova repository: what the code computes, what it never does, how to go back from its outputs, its invariants, cost and checks.

## Facts

- **kind:** groupant_fragment
- **status:** partial source bound model
- **source:** [`mlab/src/builtins/files.rs`](https://github.com/ElamurAI/mova-free/blob/main/mlab/src/builtins/files.rs)
- **source SHA-256:** `c66336a9d4bf2e94…`
- **covers:** Destination directory redirects to child(dst,base_name(src)); fname movefile selects rename, other branch rejects source directory then copies bytes. (bytes 4273–5334)
- **part of:** [mlab-builtins-files](https://md.groupants.elamur.ai/free/en/mova/mlab/src/builtins/files.rs.groupant/)
- **repository folder:** [`mlab/src/builtins/files.rs.groupant/transfer.groupant`](https://github.com/ElamurAI/mova-free/tree/main/mlab/src/builtins/files.rs.groupant/transfer.groupant)
- **repository commit:** `855da7bd4a7b`

> **Implementation material.** A Mova code model describes this code at one source revision: partial models, finite checks and their stated scope. It is not a reviewed general exposition, and its labels are shown as written, never raised.

## Components

| component | label | where |
|---|---|---|
| **approximant** | partial | [approximant](#approximant) |
| **ast** | partial | `../syntax.json` |
| **cost** | symbolic source derived | [invariant](#invariant) |
| **descriptant** | present | [descriptant](#descriptant) |
| **invariant** | partial | [invariant](#invariant) |
| **tests** | executed bounded checks | [tests](#tests) |

## Obernants

The typed relations around the forward model: the behaviour complement (what the code never does), the reverse reconstruction (every input compatible with an output) and specialised views.

| id | type | label | where |
|---|---|---|---|
| `behavior_complement` | behavior_complement | partial source derived model | [behavior_complement](#behavior-complement) |
| `reverse_reconstruction` | reverse_reconstruction | partial source derived model | [reverse_reconstruction](#reverse-reconstruction) |
| `state_invariant` | state_invariant | partial source derived model | [state_invariant](#state-invariant) |
| `failure_precedence` | failure_precedence | partial source derived model | [failure_precedence](#failure-precedence) |
| `representation_transport` | representation_transport | partial source derived model | [representation_transport](#representation-transport) |
| `resource_cost` | resource_cost | partial source derived model | [resource_cost](#resource-cost) |

## Model text


### descriptant

#### mlab-builtins-files-transfer

Destination directory redirects to child(dst,base_name(src)); fname movefile selects rename, other branch rejects source directory then copies bytes.

##### Modeling epoch — 2026-10-31

Prospective source read preceded edits. Bounded synthetic checks and selected existing safe tests exercise actual code; paired debug/release results and compiled negative-control assertions are retained externally. Frozen scenario, corpus, external measurement, full-school and training effects are unexecuted. Partial lexical syntax supplies no macro-expanded or semantic proof.

### approximant

#### Forward relation

Destination directory redirects to child(dst,base_name(src)); fname movefile selects rename, other branch rejects source directory then copies bytes.

##### Domain

Valid Rust value/storage invariants and available bounded resources; exact branch and effect observations only.

##### Executable approximant gap

No useful percentage-error surrogate is established for these categorical, textual or effectful observations. Supported future caps are 1%, 2%, 5%, 10%; no executable approximation or production substitution is claimed.

### invariant

#### Invariants and costs

Both source and destination strings are extracted before destination stat; failure message carries operation and normalized destination.

##### Failure ordering

Destination stat errors are treated as non-directory; copy source stat errors proceed to copy and let it diagnose.

##### Cost

Path handling O(path bytes), transfer cost provider-dependent; no streaming or atomicity guarantee introduced.

### models

## Typed models — mlab-builtins-files-transfer

Source-derived partial relations; finite checks do not prove universality.

### behavior_complement

copyfile source directory excludes recursive directory copy. Failed rename with n=0 excludes a returned false status.

### reverse_reconstruction

A successful destination state admits multiple source roots sharing basename; copy preserves source while rename antecedents depend on provider semantics.

### state_invariant

Both source and destination strings are extracted before destination stat; failure message carries operation and normalized destination.

### failure_precedence

Destination stat errors are treated as non-directory; copy source stat errors proceed to copy and let it diagnose.

### representation_transport

Output shape is zero on successful n=0 or boolean plus optional message; transfer destination includes basename only for known directories.

### resource_cost

Path handling O(path bytes), transfer cost provider-dependent; no streaming or atomicity guarantee introduced.

### tests

#### Evidence and limitations

Parent source checks: builtins::files::wave30_tests::status_and_partial_delete. The fragment's actual statements lie in the recorded byte range; parent checks need not exercise every branch in this fragment. See ../tests.md for source-level control and limitations.

AST projection generated twice to fresh files and compared byte-for-byte. Runtime evidence is finite and does not establish every branch, allocation failure, backend implementation or effect path. No optimization or speed claim.