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mrjayviper

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Jul 17, 2012
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Hello. When I copy some files/apps to my samba shares (1 running FreeBSD and the other is running Debian Linux), I get an error code -43.

this is the text of the error message

Code:
operation cannot be completed as one or more required items cannot be found

This doesn't happen to all apps. I've encountered the problem copying calibre/ripit/textwrangler and possibly more. But I didn't get the error copying Chrome/VNC viewer and possibly more as well.

I tried copying the files using the cp command and I was getting "cannot copy extended attributes" error. After removing the extended attributes via

Code:
xattr -rc calibre.app

and confirming the extended attributes are gone by running

Code:
xattr calibre.app

and I am still getting the same error. I tried copying Google Chrome which I don't have any problem with copying using drag-and-drop and I get no errors at all.

I've searched the net and I found an Apple support article but I don't think it applies to me. I found numerous discussions on the topic but nothing really helpful.

Any ideas on how this can be avoided or perhaps a workaround? At the moment, the only workaround I can think of is to tar my files first before copying to my network shares.

thanks very much for the help :)
 
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