At 12:16 AM -0400 5/27/2012, Melvyn & Edith Halbert wrote:
I often use the Finder to Copy a bunch of files from my iMac's
internal hard drive to some external device. Occasionally an error
message pops up that says 'An item named "" already exists in this
location. Do you want to replace it with the one you're moving?'
The error message sometimes includes a dot for the name of a problem
file (".").
When this error occurs with a bunch of files, I have found no easy
way to determine what the real filename is or which application
created that file. Some of the files being copied were created from
webpages saved from Safari, but most of them are text files created
by Text Edit in its rtf mode (but without the extension .rtf).
I never saw this error before I started using Lion.
Has anyone seen similar behavior in Finder Copy? Does anyone know
what to do about it?
Could be that you're grabbing some invisible files too. You can set
Finder to display most invisible files using a tool such as OnyX. Or
you can just use the "ls -al" command in Terminal to view them all.
In Finder's preferences, set it to show all file extensions.
If you haven't been giving files appropriate extensions, get in the
habit of doing so. This will reduce the possibility of odd name
collisions. And Apple has depreciated the old creator/type code
system anyway.
- Dan.
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