Cannot copy from one USB drive to another

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Cannot copy from one USB drive to another

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having trouble copying data from one USB drive to another. i think its a permissions problem as i have 3 folders to copy, one copied fine, thus telling me that the 2 drives are working fine, the other 2 will not.

when i try it i get a message:

Sorry, the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred. (Error code 0)

any ideas? i recently used nSync on a few of the drives to sync up some old data. could that have changed the permissions?

MBP 2.4Ghz 15.4" 4GB Memory, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on May 22, 2010 5:00 AM

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Jolly Giant

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May 22, 2010 5:32 AM in response to mumbles2701

for the avoidance of doubt, how are these drives formatted and how big are the files you are trying to copy ?

J GG

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mumbles2701 Author

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May 22, 2010 6:35 AM in response to Jolly Giant

one is MS-DOS and 150GB the other is mac OS extended (case sensitive) and is 1TB, whatever they mean...

files range from word docs to WAV files, I'd say nothing bigger than 2GB for one file, although only a few of them.

does that matter? i reformatted the little 150gb this morning. do i need to reformat? how come a transfer worked this morning on another folder on the same drives?

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