Thanks, Bruce. However, in my case the old backup drive (2TB) is becoming my new primary external drive; and I have a new 4TB drive for backups. So I need to copy the files.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW > On Mar 26, 2017, at 10:09 AM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Rick, an alternate suggestion. When I bought a larger Time Machine > backup drive I just unhooked the older one and started new backups > with the newer drive. If I ever need to recover older files, there's a > simple way to remount the older disk and have TM search it too. So now > I have backups going back a few years as well as scads of room for new > ones. > > BTW, if I really needed to locate and rename funky older files I'd us > the find(1) command from the Terminal. find(1) supports regular > expressions so you can easily locate files with those specific symbols > in. It would take hours or a day to search an entire huge drive > though, so you'd want to redirect output to a text file. > > > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have El Capitan running now. I tried to transfer my Time Machine backup to >> a new, larger disk, and after a few hours of grinding things came to a halt >> with “Error Code -43,” saying that some files could not be found. >> >> Snooping around on line, I learned that symbols in file names (e.g. %, #, &, >> etc.) choke El Capitan, and that Apple never patched this problem. With >2 >> million files, one can’t find and correct the offending file names. >> >> I tried copying via the Terminal interface, but couldn’t get it to work. >> >> So the question: Can one copy a Time Machine backup (or other large set of >> files) in Sierra without it choking? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Rick >> >> http://photo.net/photos/RickW >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
