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redAPPLE
Oct 22, 2004, 01:44 AM
so here is my story. i have this 120 gb firewire drive with my music. i got this 1tb lacie drive and i copied (basically drag-and-dropped) the music to the 1 tb drive (as a backup). my 120 gb broke. now i have a new 120 gb and i want to use it again as my music disk. i tried to copy (again, drag-and-drop) the files from the 1 tb to my new 120, it was not able to copy everything.

i tried to manually copy one song from the 1 tb to the 120 gb and i get an error "unknown error (-36)". i have been reading and there must be something wrong with the "data fork".

i can play the song in quicktime, but not in iTunes. i cannot burn the song on a cd, i cannot copy the song to the desktop.

please help me save the music!



Nermal
Oct 22, 2004, 02:22 AM
Is your new drive formatted as HFS? The drive manufacturer probably formats to FAT32 by default. This shouldn't be a problem, but you never know.

redAPPLE
Oct 22, 2004, 09:10 AM
Is your new drive formatted as HFS? The drive manufacturer probably formats to FAT32 by default. This shouldn't be a problem, but you never know.

all the drives are formatted as hfs+.