# Mender-artifact hangs
**URL:** https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-artifact-hangs/752
**Category:** General Discussions
**Tags:** mender-artifact
**Created:** [June 25, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-artifact-hangs/752 "2019-06-25T17:41:45Z")
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### Author:  [@ster](https://hub.mender.io/u/ster)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2019, 9:49am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-artifact-hangs/752/4 "2019-06-27T09:49:45Z")
> As one idea, would it help your workflow if cp / install took several files that could be copied in one operation?
Yes It would help a bit, but according to `mender-artifact cp --help`, it doesn’t seem to support copying multiple files in one run. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
Anyway, as I also need to add Artifact state scripts to already created mender artifacts and `mender-artifact` doesn’t support this, I ended up with the following workflow as the most time efficient:
1. run mender-convert and kill it as soon as it starts creating .mender file
2. mount .sdimg and copy all files inside (mender.config, identity, inventiry, client state-scripts)
3. mount .ext4 and perform the same copying
4. create mender artifact from .ext4, adding artifact state scripts using `mender-artifact write rootfs-image .... --script `
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