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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
