anyone know what Error -48

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anyone know what Error -48

in console is... perhaps they'll delete this post too.. even though it's a problem relative to the discussion and i've been trying to fix it for 5 days..

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Dec 17, 2007 3:42 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 17, 2007 3:53 PM in response to iamnotacannibal

Hi

What are you trying to do when you get this error?

dupFNErr = -48, /*duplicate filename (rename)*/

Give some more detail, and maybe someone can help you …

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Answer 2

Dec 17, 2007 3:53 PM in response to iamnotacannibal

Only pointless posts containing senseless rants get deleted. Could this be you?

If you care to explain the problem and ask a question you may actually get some help.

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Answer 3

Dec 17, 2007 4:38 PM in response to Silly rabbit

excuse me.. silly rabbit... did you read any of my past posts... no.. so you have no frame of reference here, Donny. You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know...

I already explained my situation.. and it was deleted for no reason.. I'm sorry but it was detailed and had more than 10 replies..

anyway.. give me some help then silly... instead of just perusing posts looking for someone to parent..

I reinstalled leopard, reformatted my external (all 1tb of it).. used the proper GUID partition map.. and am still having the same problem... it never finishes a back up... sometimes it only makes it 8kb, sometimes it makes it through 75 gb... in the console when it fails.. it will say backupd error (-48) on any random file.. sometimes it's a system file.. sometimes it's a file on my desktop.. changes kinds of files, location, sizes.. etc..

there was a link in my past post from a very helpful peggy that suggested it was a pdf indexing issue.. so i excluded my folder with pdfs in it.. spotlight is indexing properly now.. but time machine is still failing me.

so.. see any reason to delete this one as well? besides bad pr... I am following everything i can find and it's still not working.. and i'm not even a novice user.. I've been on a mac for 10 years, and know a lot more than most users.

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Answer 4

Dec 17, 2007 4:57 PM in response to iamnotacannibal

I already explained my situation.. and it was deleted for no reason..

Really??? No reason??? Hard to believe.

Anyway, I'd suggest running the beta version of Onyx for Leopard. It sorted all the glitches I had in regards to permissions and backing up.

Give it a go. It just might do it for you.

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Answer 5

Peggy Lynn

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Dec 17, 2007 5:07 PM in response to iamnotacannibal

The GUID partitioning is not nearly as critical as the formatting. Double check it in Disk Utility. Click on the indented icon beneath your Time Machine drive. The formatting should be Mac OS Extended (Journaled). If the formatting is incorrect follow the directions in a this article.

That said, I would doubt that this error is being caused by a formatting issue unless it relates to case sensitivity. You might want to take Time Machine's word for it and assume it's finding some duplicate file names that is making it unhappy. I've never used it but this shareware says it will locate duplicate file names for you and it's Leopard compatible.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17908

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Answer 6

Dec 17, 2007 7:12 PM in response to Silly rabbit

do you think it could be a permissions issue? i'll give it a go

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Answer 7

Dec 17, 2007 7:24 PM in response to Peggy Lynn

i downloaded tidy up, but i'm confused.. I mean.. why would I not want to have a single duplicate on my machine.. what about repeated files such as the signature in an email.. what mandtaes it as a duplicate? being in the same folder.. i mean i see in the program you can change what it looks for.. but.. and why would a file having two versions cause time machine to mess up.. shouldn't it just copy both over?...

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Answer 8

Dec 17, 2007 7:27 PM in response to Silly rabbit

the first one really had no reason to be deleted.. there was a lot of useful information..

the second one told apple and time machine to bite me.. so i'm not surprised by that one..

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Answer 9

Peggy Lynn

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Dec 18, 2007 11:27 AM in response to iamnotacannibal

You might use some trial and error to change the names of the files that have duplicate names starting with any files which have the same name that are able to reside in the same folder because of case sensitivity.

I would think that Time Machine would be able to resolve file names with the same names that live in different folders.

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Answer 10

Dec 19, 2007 12:08 AM in response to iamnotacannibal

just wanted to update in case anyone else seems to run into this problem.. I seem to have fixed it by working through everything i transferred over from my last os.. and the trouble files ended up being not one, or two, but about 10 of apple's own quicktime codecs/plugins in my hd/library/quicktime folder.. ie: motion, livetype.. etc..

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Answer 11

Dec 19, 2007 12:42 AM in response to iamnotacannibal

Interesting,
I did the 'non-recommended' update install and didn't have any of these permissions issues. I did have the blue screen of death on restart, but it was easily solved by removing the app enhancer folder via a firewire connection to my trusty old iMac.

Is it possible the archive install could be the reason for these permission glitches and obscure errors? There definitely seems to be a connection. Time Machine is doing it's thing without any trouble after the upgrade install.

I know this post is not really any help, but it is food for thought for those considering installing Leopard.

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