I have an early 2011 MBP with a 2nd SSD installed in a caddy where the superdrive was.
I have an amount of MP3's on there that were originally copied onto it temporally while swapping around drives on another machine. Unfortunately that machine died (PC junk!) now the only copy is on my SSD.
I can see all of the files in finder and play them with no issues, yet as soon as I try to drag one onto my desktop or copy it to another drive then I get Error 36.
I have run disk util and tried to repair it and various other things that I found via google, but none of them seem to work.
I can only guess the drive is on its way out, that is not a problem and I will be happy to replace it, but I obviously do not want to have to lose a large amount of mp3's, most are all live recordings from many years ago that cannot be replaced
Drive info:
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Edit:
I have just tried to load one of the files into Audacity, which it does with no errors.
I was then able to save it as a new MP3 on my other drive and therefore keep a fresh copy of it.
This is a good work around, but as there are over 800 files it wouldn't really be practical!
I will however do this with the most important ones in the meantime just incase the drive fails totally
I have an amount of MP3's on there that were originally copied onto it temporally while swapping around drives on another machine. Unfortunately that machine died (PC junk!) now the only copy is on my SSD.
I can see all of the files in finder and play them with no issues, yet as soon as I try to drag one onto my desktop or copy it to another drive then I get Error 36.
I have run disk util and tried to repair it and various other things that I found via google, but none of them seem to work.
I can only guess the drive is on its way out, that is not a problem and I will be happy to replace it, but I obviously do not want to have to lose a large amount of mp3's, most are all live recordings from many years ago that cannot be replaced
Drive info:
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Edit:
I have just tried to load one of the files into Audacity, which it does with no errors.
I was then able to save it as a new MP3 on my other drive and therefore keep a fresh copy of it.
This is a good work around, but as there are over 800 files it wouldn't really be practical!
I will however do this with the most important ones in the meantime just incase the drive fails totally
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