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MrPineapples

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I'm having an issue with my external HD (500gb Western Digital My Passport)

I was having trouble with it not mounting on my Macbook Pro, I've had to mount it through disk utility, when running verify & repair permissions it told me it couldn't repair & to back up data & reformat.

Even though all the data seemed to be there, that's what I've done transferring all the data onto the HD on my work Mac & reformatted the drive as MS-DOS (FAT32) (as I want it to be accessible by my xbox).

Anyway now I've got to transfer the data back onto it, that's all gone fine apart from my iTunes library. When I try & copy it over It starts to copy then after a small amount of data has copied it comes up with an error message

"The operation can’t be completed because an item with the name “Music” already exists."

Any ideas? if I go into the music folder & try to copy the albums in batches I get a similar message.

If anyone knows what this might be & how to solve it I'd be really grateful, my iTunes library is stuck on my work machine at the moment 🙁
 
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A quick search turned up this:

Turns out it has to do something with the names of certain files. I solved it by changing some file names in which there was a "~". When I replaced the "~" with a "-", it was possible to copy the folder.

So it seems like the FAT 32 system in combination with the finder can't properly read the ~ in file names.

Hope this helps for you as well!

Link
 
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That worked perfectly, thank you.

There was 1 offending file amongst 125gb of music... thankfully it was by 2 many DJ's so one of the first one's I came across.
 
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