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xolan99

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Oct 21, 2007
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I just got my first Mac which has Snow Leopard. I've been trying to backup files to an HFS+ extended formatted hard drive. This usually fails because there are files that give me an error code of -41. It's random files. I also believe this is affecting why Time Machine can't backup my files

Anyway I can't find a solution to the -41 error code issue. Any idea why I'm getting them and any possible solutions?
 
Open Disk Utility, found in the Utilities folder inside of the Applications folder.

Click your hard drive in the side bar, then click this button.
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Thank you! I'm going to try that right now.

It's weird because it seems to be random files - random jpgs, random mp3s, etc..
 
Nope, that didn't work :( Still failed at the same spot when trying to copy my Music and Pictures folders over
 
Have you tried ejecting the drive and remounting? I sometimes get the same error with my network shared drive. Remounting it usually fixes it.
 
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