error code -1407

[thierrydehove]

Hello,
I got this message:
"The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -1407)." each time I try to put a folder inside my external hard drive into the trash, I don't have this bug for a simple file

Thanks a lot for your help
Thierry

 

[r.j.s]

Is the external drive formatted as NTFS?

 

[thierrydehove]

Hello
how can I check it ?
Thank

 

[r.j.s]

Open Disk Utility ... select the disk, then look at the bottom of the window where it says Partition Map Scheme.

 

[spinnerlys]

Via Disk Utility* or right clicking on the HDD icon in Finder and selecting GET INFO**.

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[thierrydehove]

Make sense ;-)
the format is ms-dos (fat32) from Western digital

Thanks

 

[spinnerlys]

Make sense ;-)
the format is ms-dos (fat32) from Western digital

Thanks

But Mac OS X is capable of writing to FAT32 formatted volumes.

Is the file bigger than 4GB?

FAT32

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.
• To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
• (Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)

HFS

• Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive or HFSExplorer

 

[thierrydehove]

it's 1 tetra USB 2 external hard drive

 

[thierrydehove]

I have copied my files already with no bugs

 

[r.j.s]

Is the file bigger than 4GB?

If it was ... it would have never gotten on the drive to begin with.

OP - have you restarted the machine?

 

[spinnerlys]

If it was ... it would have never gotten on the drive to begin with.

OP - have you restarted the machine?

Ah, good to know, I abandoned FAT32 ten years ago (except with those bloody USB memory sticks, and those are often just 4GB ones), thus I have never experienced that.

 

[thierrydehove]

the folder is empty
and I had this bug since yesterday night so I have restarted my mac this morning