[B]Mac OS error -36[/B]

[doug.hall]

Does anyone know what this error means? My back up keeps failing when I try to back up to my external hard disk which is connected to my airport extreme. I also got an error -36 when I tried to copy some files from my laptop to the external drive also.

Sorry about the title. I tried t make the text bold but failed. Doh!

 

[mad jew]

It's a very generic read and write error in OSX. Can you access the drive at all? You may need to reformat the external...

 

[Eidorian]

Does anyone know what this error means? My back up keeps failing when I try to back up to my external hard disk which is connected to my airport extreme. I also got an error -36 when I tried to copy some files from my laptop to the external drive also.

Sorry about the title. I tried t make the text bold but failed. Doh!

AirDisk has been known to fail on large data transfers.