Error code -42

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I have had a G5 tower with two extra hard drives. The OSx version was 3.x.

I am planning on getting rid of it but I want to save the files accumulated.

I set it up and powered it up and transfered all the files and directories I

want to save over to a 2015 Mac mini running High Sierra. The copy over

file sharing went without problems.

But now I want to copy the G5 content to another mini also running High

Sierra. I am getting a dialog and the copy process over file sharing connection

is aborted with error code -42. Why would the initial copy work and this

copy attempt be causing problems? In addition I noticed that the source mini

had to be restarted for some reason. I thought that might have something to

do with it. But I tried the copy process again and got the same error code notice.

I also tried to copy the G5 content to another 2020 mini with M1 chip running

Monterey. I did not get the copy error (-42) but I did get a notice stating that

some files could not be copied because of inadequate permissions. The dirs

and/or files were not specified. So I would have to root through some 36 Gbs

of content to figure out what was lacking permissions.

Thank you for time and attention:

JK

Mac mini, macOS 10.13

Posted on May 30, 2022 3:10 PM

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Answer 1

I have been able to successfully do the copy operation.

Before I was on the destination mini and connecting to

the source mini. So the copy operation would be pulled

by the destination machine.

I tried it by connecting from the source to the destination

machine and pushing the copy operation to the destination

machine. That worked but I was asked for an admin password

on the source machine. So I may also be able to copy the G5

content to the M1 mini with the same strategy.

I presume that -42 has some reference to permission issues (?)..

Thank you for time and attention

JK

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