Transferring data

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Transferring data

Posted by Coulter Mitchell on October 27, 2007 at 11:38 pm

I have a project that works perfectly on a hard drive. I’m trying to transfer it to another hard drive. I’m dragging over the quicktime movies, and every so often a quicktime movie will say “the finder cannot complete the operation because some data in ‘the file’s name’ cannot be read or written. error code -36.” I have no idea what this means and it’s happening to one in every 50 or so QT movies. This is 720p footage, and it plays fine on the first hard drive and when I double click them and the QT player comes up, they play fine. Help? Thank you.

Warren Eig replied 18 years, 6 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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David Roth weiss
October 28, 2007 at 1:33 am

1)Why don’t you give us a file name of one of the ones thats problematic?

2)How is the new hard drive formated? Are you certain its formated Mac extended and not Fat32?

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October 28, 2007 at 4:02 am

Also along with the information David asked for, are you using media manager to transfer the p[project to the new drive.
Rafael Amador
October 28, 2007 at 5:31 am

Open the Info window of the HD and check “Ignore ownership on this volume.
If the problem persist, try to transfer the clips in batches. If there is any clip that doesn’t want to be transferred, do the same. Open the Info window and make sure that is not locked and that you got “Read & write” in Ownership & permissions.
Rafael
Warren Eig
October 28, 2007 at 5:40 am

Try ChronoSync. It will bypass trouble files and complete a large copy, whereas the finder will stop with a -36 error and abort. Afterwards ChronoSync reports if there were any problems and if there were, lists the files that did not copy allowing you to copy them one at a time.

It’s also great for syncing up two hard drives if you want to back up data but don’t want to copy or replace redundant files. It also allows for copying in one direction only so you can’t inadvertently erase the wrong files.

HTH,

Warren

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