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Aovid copying problems on external FireWire hard drives
Authored by: af3556 on Aug 07, '03 10:59:21AM

I suspect the problem you have is due to the different ideas of valid file names for HFS+ and VFAT32/NTFS. UFS+ is pretty forgiving and allows any (7bit?) character in filenames except '/' (note the Finder hides ':' chars as '/', but this is for the GUI only); VFAT doesn't allow any of the following: '\/:*?"<>|'.

Any file with one or more of these invalid characters in its filename will fail to be copied to a VFAT32 or NTFS partition.

Also, I believe as UFS+ allows wide character filenames (i.e. accents, etc), and VFAT/NTFS does not, these will also cause an error.

As you noted, the Finder bails on the first error with a very unhelpful error code.

To find the culprit file(s), try the following from the command line (all on one line):
find . | grep -v "^[]\/.0-9ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz=\;_\#\+\(\) \'\&,\$\![-]*$"

(the grep character classes A-Za-z can't be used as they seem to include accented chars?)



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Aovid copying problems on external FireWire hard drives
Authored by: wlinder on Aug 07, '03 02:55:53PM

Actually, in our testing here at Iomega, we have found that when a file transfer chokes on an MSDOS volume, it is usually a problem with an Icon resource. Try this - look in the folder/volume you're copying and see if you have a folder with a special icon. Delete or move that icon and the folder/volume will copy.

Also, instead of partitioning the volume, try sharing it from the Windows machine and the 127GB limitation will be ignored.

Enjoy!

Wayne Linder



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Aovid copying problems on external FireWire hard drives
Authored by: claustrophonic on Jan 19, '04 09:58:43AM
Delete or move that icon...

How does one do this exactly? I have folders and folders of files that probably have icon info inside them somewhere... one in particular I have to click on "show package contents" then there are hundreds of files inside.



Thanks.

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