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. This is a common error when samba goes tits up. Error -36 basically means "uhh, sumthin' broke boss!" Sometimes although much more rarely in 10.5 than other versions SMB managed to screw itself up so bad you had to reboot. > > (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. Why not just connect the external drive right to the mac? I do this all the time to recover data from crashed windows systems. OS X, sinc e 10.4 or 10.3 has natively read NTFS volumes; you can gain NTFS read/ wrote ability by installing NTFS3G and MacFUSE. If you continue to get this error, (which I have, on flaky disks) copy the files up to the problem file and the files after it. Copy files over in chunks. Worst case you can copy files from mounted volumes using dd in terminal. Peruse the dd man page for the needed parameters to set it to give up after a few tries on bad sectors. It's been a long time since I had to resort to dd to get data out of a failing drive, but it works. <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050302225659382> Should get you started. There's lots of info in the comments. It takes aLONG time though...I once pounded on a failing Windows drive for a day and a half, but I managed to recover about 70% of the data from it. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
