Disk Copy Problem?
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- -scarabin-
so i bought a 320 gb external drive to keep all my shit on, and i'm trying to copy my gigs of data from my computer onto the drive.
unfortunately, everytime i try to do so it gives me an error saying "can't copy the file "blah blah blah" because the filename contains characters that are not allowed" or whatever, and then it just cancels the entire operation.
is there a way to override this annoying error, or a utility that will scour my hd for disallowed filenames and change them automatically?
this is driving me crazy...
- -scarabin-0
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- heavyt0
what OS are you using?
i sometimes have that issue when the string of the files path is longer than 256chars.if you are using osX, unix via terminal can be used to move files over.
- joyride0
it might be formated fat32 so you can connect it to da Mac.
maybe a reformat would help... but I would advise looking for a better solution. That would be my last resort
- kyl30
yes this happened to me, fucking horrible. I ended up moving smaller chunks of the files and that seemed to help. Also the problem files were mainly os9 files. don't seem to have problems with any files recently, but my naming converntions have come a long way.
maybe zip some files then copy over.
- -scarabin-0
i tried zipping the files, copying to new drive, and unzipping, but it didn't work, saying some files inside were corrupted or something
so nobody knows of a utility that will rename my files automatically to acceptable naming conventions?
- kyl30
sorry man, I know my trouble stemmed from using slashes and other bad chars in file names.