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Edit Message 'Cannot backup my files / copy my files and folders due to error message " The operation can’t be completed because an item with the name “.DS_Store” already exists. "'
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<body><p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Hi Apple community!</span></p><p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">I have a [rather worrying] problem.</span></p><p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;"><span class="s1"><br/> </span>When I try to copy all my files from my documents on my mac [or the entire documents folder] into an external drive, I get this error message</span></p><p class="p2"></p><p class="p3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">" The operation can’t be completed because an item with the name “.DS_Store” already exists. "</span></p><p class="p2"></p><p class="p3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">I am not given an option to skip this file or anything else.</span></p><p class="p3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">But I simply cannot complete the operation!</span></p><p class="p2"></p><p class="p3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">I have tried deleting a few of the .ds_store files, [both in the original and in the destinations]</span></p><p class="p3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">but no success.</span></p><p class="p3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">The same thing keeps happening.</span></p><p class="p2"></p><p class="p3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">At first, this was just happening when I was trying to backup to my dropbox folder [the one on my mac's harddrive, which gets synced to the cloud],</span></p><p class="p3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">but then I tried to back up my documents to my external hard drive, and I realized it is giving me the same error message.</span></p><p class="p2"></p><p class="p3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">So effectively, it seems I cannot backup my files anywhere!</span></p><p class="p2"></p><p class="p3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.</span></p><p class="p3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;">Thank you.</span></p></body>
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