Problems copying files in Lion?

NO!! The problem remains. Unbelievable! Are they deaf??

Ok, finally figured out what is going on. It has nothing to do with Lion USB support. Rather it is becuase my Mac illiteracy (this is my first Mac). All my drivers are NTFS formated and it is a known fact that Mac cannot write to them.

I have heard programs such as Paragon 9, NTFS-3g or MacFuse would allow wrting to NTFS formatted drives. Anybody has experience with them under Lion?

I can confirm again: since I have deleted "Xee.app", both machines copy files without any problems. This is weird. Yesterday I copied folders containing thousands of pictures and videos from one Mac to an external USB drive and than to the other Mac. All files have been copied successfully.

The only copy-related problem I've experienced is when I option-drag a copy of a mounted disk image to replace an existing folder of the same name. The Finder crashes and relaunches within a few seconds. The replacement copy never takes place.

Man, I've been tearing my hair out for weeks because copying a large number of files to an external hard drive not working! Many dozens of hours wasted. Oh my god this is so frustrating...

OK, so I think I know what's happening at my end (may not be the same issue for you though). I have ripped my entire dvd collection using MacDVDRipperPro and since I upgraded to Lion I have continued to rip several more dvds under Lion but using the version of MDRP I purchased from the Snow Leopard days. All the files produced by the SL version running on Lion were apparently corrupted such that if they were part of a bulk drag and drop copy then the copy operation would crap out when it came across any such file. The degree to which things crapped out was scary. The external drive I was copying from might unmount, or it would become corrupted and subsequently not even remount (because the journal file on the drive became corrupt and even DiskUtility couldn't fix it - even though it said it did). Even though many 10's of gigabytes of movie files were successfully transferred before coming across the corrupt file, when that event happened the copy operation aborted and all the other files would not be visible in the Finder (and even in Terminal). Really disturbing consequences...

Oh yea - the corrupted filed would play fine using DVDPlayer. I confess to not testing this out by watching the full movie from start to finish, but DVDPlayer wouldn't complain when I double clicked on the file. It would play fine, I could click at many points in the scroll bar and jump to most any place in the movie without issue.

This is a Lion Problem. I have a brand new MacBook Air, running Snow Leopard and have no issues. I have a brand new Mac Mini, running Lion and have all kinds of issues (no third party apps or programs-Brand new out of the box continuous Problem).

Copy freezes at the last 5 seconds of Very large files (upon system reboot, it seems to have transferred). All my files that were on NTFS and have now been transferred to ExFat (these transfers were all done on the new Mac Mini-without issue), freeze now, the first time I try to copy, move to trash, or when trash is emptied. Once the files have been moved (once), they will then work as normal and I don't get the reoccurring issue for that particular file. But I am constantly having to reboot my machine for this to work. It only fixes the files that I was working with, before reboot. So the next time I try to copy, move to trash or empty trash with a new file. I get the same issues and the whole process starts all over.

Force quit and then Relaunch doesn't work at all. Just gets stuck on white screen with spinner, for hours. Which means I have to reboot (hold the off button, to turn system off and restart). Then all those issues clear up. Until I move, copy or try to delete another of the (many NTFS transfer to ExFat Files that I have). This is a constant problem because I have about 8TB's of movies, pictures and what not on my Hard drives and I am always transferring files to other hard drives. I am afraid at some point they will become corrupted and all my hard work over the years will be lost, due to this GLITCH!

Any file that was transfered from apple to apple work fine, it is only the files that i have transfered from NTFS to ExFat, that seem to be the problm. But agian, i did the initial transfer on my Mac Mini, so I don't understand why this is such a big problem. The initial file transfers worked without issue! This is very frustrating to say the least.

Also, just to add, this happens whether the Hard Drives are connected directly to the Mini Mac or connected Via Hub. It is irrelevant. It is just a Constant Problem. I just updated my software again today, hoping for a fix but Alas, nothing!! I am still having the probelm. I have rebooted 4 times today.

gr8gazoo, all the same problems here. New Mac Mini Server w/ Lion as original install but lots of data migrated from prior Leopard machine and outboard shares. Moving/deleating files is a nightmare, with timeouts and 'Finder not responding' which leads to failed Finder relaunches. Restarts after Finder relaunches usually result in gray screen with spinning progress meter that never stops (followed by unplugging to reboot).

All this is after Apple replaced my first Mini for a bad logic board.

Has 10.7.2 helped for any of you? There are several bugs and enhancements-waiting-to-happen that are keeping me from Lion but this is the biggest worry - data loss and massive frustration from moving files.

10.7.2 hasn't improved my experience.

My recommendation is stay as you are, or do a fresh install of Lion. Don't do an inplace upgrade.

I still have the same problem I had before. When I option-drag a copy of a mounted disk image to replace an existing folder of the same name, the Finder crashes and relaunches within a few seconds. The replacement copy never takes place.

Same problem with Mac Mini -

So I take back what I said in a previous post. I continue to have problems copying huge numbers of files that I never had in Snow Leopard. Copy operations continue to freeze, go dog slow or flake out with things like error 50, leaving my external USB drives corrupted (it seems the journal file got hammered). This isn't just one external drive, it's many of them. Lion is just too half baked for me and I'm now left with the daunting task of turning my world back to Snow Leopard. I echo many others sentiments - Lion is Apple's Vista. I've lost so many weekends...

I want them to fix this bug I can't even drag anything or copy and successfully paste. IT'S SO IRRITATING!

I had Similar problems with lots of files disappearing with two different drives.

I used a Windows XP to copy the files to a different folder.

One drive my files will also dissappear in windows XP even if I create folder using windows will disappear. so I checked the drive for errors(Scandisk) and the automatic fix brought all my files back.

This problem exists with NTFS drives with mac FINDER application.

Cheers,

greenmen

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