Why Won't This AVI File Copy?

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Why Won't This AVI File Copy?

Sometimes I try to copy an AVI file onto an external USB or to my Apple TV. Every once in a while I get one file that starts out copying, but then I get an error message saying it "could not be read or written. (Error code -36)". The file names have no unusual characters in them.
Anybody have an idea why this is? Thanks.
By the way I have an iBook and I'm running OS 10.4.11 on it.

powerbook G4 15", 1.33 GHz

Posted on Apr 8, 2011 6:42 AM

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Answer 1

Limnos

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Apr 8, 2011 8:37 AM in response to Homer Papadopoulos

Error -36 is a general bad communication message. I have seen it when a drive is having problems, or a file is corrupt. It's not very helpful but something is either wrong with the hardware or perhaps the file is corrupt.

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Answer 2

BDAqua

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Apr 8, 2011 10:59 AM in response to Homer Papadopoulos

Hi Homer, is this File Transfer being done via SMB, or to an MS-DOs/Fat32 Drive?

If so there would be a 2 to 4GB file size limit.

For error -36, might try this...

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301580

Well, in pure Apple File System talk... -36 ioErr I/O error (bummers)

Not very helpful, but generally means a Drive quit being Readable or Writable since starting the operation...

http://fuzzy.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/ioerror-36/

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