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magiic

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jun 17, 2008
244
14
San Jose
I am trying to backup my iPhoto Library before reinstalling snow leopard on my Macbook and getting a fresh start. Unfortunately it always fails about 45MB into the copy with the following error message...

The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “iPhoto Library” can’t be read or written.
(Error code -36)

I have tried opening up all permissions on it and rebuilding the iPhoto Library. I tried using iPhoto Manager to the copy but it says it will take 44 hours whereas Finder is estimating 4 hours.

Any thoughts? I'd like to get this done today as today is my day off and I am back to work tomorrow.
 
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