Re: File transfer not happening

2010-03-28 Thread Nestamicky
On 3/27/10 11:58 AM, Dan wrote: Finder chokes on complicated tasks. Use CCC or ditto instead. Dan, how is this done? Especially, using ditto? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on

Re: File transfer not happening

2010-03-28 Thread Dan
At 7:24 AM -0600 3/28/2010, Nestamicky wrote: On 3/27/10 11:58 AM, Dan wrote: Finder chokes on complicated tasks. Use CCC or ditto instead. Dan, how is this done? Especially, using ditto? In CCC, set it to incremental backup, then unselect the whole source drive, then select the specific

Re: File transfer not happening

2010-03-28 Thread Nestamicky
On 3/28/10 9:22 AM, John Carmonne wrote: I've tried to do this over the Ethernet network here and had no luck, It only seems to work if the drives are physically connected to the same machine. Am I missing something? Thanks for confirming this. I was just about to try on the wireless network.

Re: File transfer not happening

2010-03-28 Thread John Carmonne
On Mar 28, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Nestamicky wrote: On 3/28/10 9:22 AM, John Carmonne wrote: I've tried to do this over the Ethernet network here and had no luck, It only seems to work if the drives are physically connected to the same machine. Am I missing something? Thanks for confirming

File transfer not happening

2010-03-27 Thread John Carmonne
Hi All I'm trying to transfer DVD images fro a 1TB drive to a new 2TB drive the size of the transfer is about 560 GB i've only been able to move about 235 GB and a lot of the other files choke with a finder error, I'm sure the files are OK because they play?? John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent

Re: File transfer not happening

2010-03-27 Thread Austin Leeds
Are you moving them in one swift stroke or one by one? I find sometimes the otherwise nonsensical process of moving things one by one, especially in large transfers, keeps things stable and running. Is this on your G5 or G4 (I saw a G4 in those pictures of your G5 you sent me)? Or perhaps a

Re: File transfer not happening

2010-03-27 Thread slvrmoontiger
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:32:24 To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: File transfer not happening Hi All I'm trying to transfer DVD images fro a 1TB drive to a new 2TB drive the size of the transfer is about 560 GB i've only been able to move about 235 GB and a lot of the other files choke

Re: File transfer not happening

2010-03-27 Thread John Carmonne
On Mar 27, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Austin Leeds wrote: Are you moving them in one swift stroke or one by one? I find sometimes the otherwise nonsensical process of moving things one by one, especially in large transfers, keeps things stable and running. Is this on your G5 or G4 (I saw a G4 in

Re: File transfer not happening

2010-03-27 Thread John Carmonne
On Mar 27, 2010, at 7:44 AM, slvrmoonti...@yahoo.com wrote: John, Have you run diagnostic testing on both drives? Also what type of connections are both drives running (IDE, SATA, USB1, USB2, Firewire, etc). What are the specs on your Mac? The machine is a G5 PM Dual 2.7 it has SATA

Re: File transfer not happening

2010-03-27 Thread Dan
At 7:32 AM -0700 3/27/2010, John Carmonne wrote: I'm trying to transfer DVD images fro a 1TB drive to a new 2TB drive the size of the transfer is about 560 GB i've only been able to move about 235 GB and a lot of the other files choke with a finder error, I'm sure the files are OK because they

Re: File transfer not happening

2010-03-27 Thread John Carmonne
On Mar 27, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Dan wrote: At 7:32 AM -0700 3/27/2010, John Carmonne wrote: I'm trying to transfer DVD images fro a 1TB drive to a new 2TB drive the size of the transfer is about 560 GB i've only been able to move about 235 GB and a lot of the other files choke with a finder

Re: File transfer not happening

2010-03-27 Thread Dan
At 11:12 AM -0700 3/27/2010, John Carmonne wrote: On Mar 27, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Dan wrote: At 7:32 AM -0700 3/27/2010, John Carmonne wrote: I'm trying to transfer DVD images fro a 1TB drive to a new 2TB drive the size of the transfer is about 560 GB i've only been able to move about 235 GB

Re: File transfer not happening

2010-03-27 Thread John Musbach
On 3/27/10, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Mar 27, 2010, at 10:44 AM, John Musbach wrote: That's why when doing big transfers like this I tend to use Terminals cp because it is significantly more robust then finder and will continue despite errors and will display where exactly it

Re: File transfer not happening

2010-03-27 Thread Gus
Dan, what is the difference between using cp and ditto when transferring large amounts of files like the OP is doing? On Mar 27, 1:29 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 11:12 AM -0700 3/27/2010, John Carmonne wrote: On Mar 27, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Dan wrote:   At 7:32 AM -0700 3/27/2010,