Can't Copy Files, Help!

[Slav2009]

I'm in a major jam here, someone please help...

I have two identical external USB hdd's. One was formatted NTFS which I was using for downloaded movies on my WDTV media player. The other drive is formatted MAC OS EXTENDED (Journaled) which I was using for time machine.

I got a PS3 and quickly learned I need to have a FAT32 drive in order to have it read my HDD, and I want to eliminate my WDTV. So I copied all the movies from the NTFS drive to the Mac OS Ex drive, took 4 hours but got it done. Then I formatted the NTFS drive to FAT using the Mac, and when I try to copy the movies back a bunch of them are giving me errors:

The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in "movie name" can't be read or written (Error code -36)

What do I do?? I can't even copy them to my desktop. Some movies are copying and others aren't.

 

[MacDawg]

As I recall, FAT32 has a 4GB file size restriction
Perhaps that is your issue here

 

[GGJstudios]

As I recall, FAT32 has a 4GB file size restriction
Perhaps that is your issue here

You recall correctly:

FAT32 (File Allocation Table)

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• Maximum file size: 4GB.
• Maximum volume size: 2TB

 

[Slav2009]

Thats not the issue the files are under that size, they are like 1.7gb max, most under 900mb

 

[Slav2009]

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Well about 10% of my movies are corrupt now which makes no sense to me. So dumb