Re: Error 36 while copying a file

2017-01-27 Thread Bill Spencer
The file would not copy to the flash drive any more than it would to the SSD on the Mini. My source has kindly placed a slightly lower resolution version on his Dropbox account, which I am downloading as we speak. We shall see... Bill On Friday, January 27, 2017 at 4:04:25 PM UTC-5, ValterV wr

Re: Error 36 while copying a file

2017-01-27 Thread GMail Valter Psicof
Il giorno 27/01/17 15.45, "Bill Spencer" ha scritto: > The disc with one file kept failing with an error 36 message. > P.S.: It plays fine on my Windows laptop at the office... Then it's most likely the issue is the Mac's optical drive. I know for sure many iMac optical drives are prone to failu

Re: Error 36 while copying a file

2017-01-27 Thread Russell Courtenay
That's a good idea, using USB thumb drives. DVDs do go bad, unfortunately. I have a recording of our band's first outing, I made mp3s of the Individual songs but didn't keep the original file on the hard drive. I can see where the data is on the disc but is shows up as empty on all of our devi

Re: Error 36 while copying a file

2017-01-27 Thread Bruce Johnson
Then copy it to a USB thumb drive on the Windows system then transfer to the Mac. It may be a wonky dvd, and the drive in the Windows laptop is more forgiving of data errors than the Macs. If you have a Big lots nearby they routinely have 8 and 16GB thumb drives for sale for cheap. I have a bunc

Re: Error 36 while copying a file

2017-01-27 Thread Bill Spencer
P.S.: It plays fine on my Windows laptop at the office... On Friday, January 27, 2017 at 9:45:30 AM UTC-5, Bill Spencer wrote: > > Hi there: I got two DVDs last night from a friend, which include three > videos recorded last month. Two files on one DVD and one on the other. The > disc with two f

Error 36 while copying a file

2017-01-27 Thread Bill Spencer
Hi there: I got two DVDs last night from a friend, which include three videos recorded last month. Two files on one DVD and one on the other. The disc with two files copied across fine. The disc with one file kept failing with an error 36 message. (I assume my source is a Windows user but am not