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anthonygaunt
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Errors copying files to HD (error -50)

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‎12-20-2011 08:37 AM

Hi Guys,

 

I have a large amount of files that I need to copy to my new WD 6TB MyBook World Edition and am getting a lot of errors, I am on a mac and I'm pretty sure it's either the invisible files that the mac creates that's causing the problem or permissions, probably the first one because if I copy the contents of the folder directly it's fine... That would take me years as I have about 4.5TB of files to copy over off a variety of drives!

 

Has anyone got any tips or things I can do to make this work easier?

 

Many thanks,

Anthony

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Re: Errors copying files to HD (error -50)

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‎12-21-2011 09:30 AM

How are you trying to copy the files? Using Time Machine, another software or just a clean copy? o.o

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Re: Errors copying files to HD (error -50)

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‎12-21-2011 03:28 PM

Hi,

 

I'm just doing straight copies off a selection of other WD drives that I own. It's very frustrating as I almost have to re-create every folder and copy each file individually, some folders copy over fine, others not...

 

Still after help if anyone knows any ideas?

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‎12-24-2011 08:30 AM

Just to let people know... solved!

 

Mounted as SMB://ip.address and it works fine...

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