Copying Files, Ignore Errors

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Copying Files, Ignore Errors

Hey all,
The Harddrive in my laptop recently got all screwy, I used diskwarrior to rebuild some of it and it is now operable in target disk mode. I have about 50 gigs of music on there that i really want to get off, but when i try to copy all of the music folder to my other mac, it stops in the middle because certain files are unreadable and i get an error code, i believe error -34. Im wondering if there is a program/method to copy all of the music over and just skip over the bad files, so at least a majority of my stuff is there and i dont have to go through 12,000 songs and copy them individually
thanks
j

Posted on Mar 28, 2008 6:21 AM

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Niel

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Apr 6, 2008 7:59 PM in response to Larry Bradshaw

Once you've opened the Terminal, enter 'ditto' without the quote marks, drag the source folder or drive into the Terminal window, and then drag the destination folder into the Terminal window. Press Enter.

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Niel

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Mar 28, 2008 7:47 PM in response to Justin Siegal

Use the ditto command in the Terminal, which is in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder; for instructions on its use, enter 'man ditto' without the quote marks into the Terminal prompt.

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Answer 3

Apr 6, 2008 7:52 PM in response to Justin Siegal

I'm having the same problem and not sure if I understand how to type the proper commands into terminal to use the "ditto"

Can you assist me with the correct structure. I want to copy all folders and files on my external harddrive named LARRY within the iTunes Managed Content folder to another external harddrive called iTunes Backup.

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