...You could plug the USB HD directly into your Mac. I assume it's the
iMac in your signature? Unless it's a 90's Mac, it should have USB.
Macs will read PC formatted HD's.
Alternately, you could use the PC to copy the files, Windows isn't so
restrictive about permissions, and might just copy those files that
the Mac doesn't have permissions for.
Another solution would be to find that certain .pub file, and either
change the permissions on it so you can read and write to it, or just
delete it if it's not important. I'm not quite sure exactly what
a .pub file is, but it sounds like you're copying a system file over.
You could just copy the information, if you're not trying to get the
whole system. You can try googling the error message, along with a
brief description of the problem, or just google the whole error
message (exactly).
Hope that helps,
-Elliott Price
Mac Computer Repair - Santa Barbara
Graphic Design - Artwork Setup
Websites - Low Cost Custom Websites
On Sep 14, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Malcolm O'Brien wrote:
>
> I'm copying about 115,000 files. The source is a external USB HD on my
> PC. The destination is a folder on the Mac. Twice now, I've gotten the
> message:
>
> The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in
> "CP20010618.pub" cannot be read or written. Error code -36.
>
> (Aside: Where do I find the details of error numbers?)
>
> What I did the first time was throw all the successfully copied
> files to
> the Trash, SCANDISK (& fix) the PC's external HD, and try the
> operation
> again, which just got me the same abend & msg.
>
> See, I Trashed the files so that I could avoid duplicate copies or
> 115,000 "Overwrite?" dialogs. So what I need is a better way to copy.
> One that will continue and perhaps make a list of failed files. Or
> that
> will recognize previously copied files as successful components of
> _this_ operation.
>
> TIA for helpful suggestions.
> --
> Malcolm
> 800MHz 17" flat panel iMac running Leopard (1GB RAM, 500GB HD)
>
> >
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