I keep getting and error code when I try to copy or move files on or within an external USB HD.
"The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -50)."
Has anyone encountered this?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Run Disk Utility and verify/repair your drives.
To repair your boot drive you will have to boot from your recovery partition and run DU from it.
I'm afraid I had already tried that. Everything verified as ok.
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This won't answer the error -50 problem but another way to move the stuff is to compress it with, say as zip. Then move the zip to the target and expand the zip on the destination.
If all this stuff to move is in a folder then right (control) click on the folder to bring up the finder's contextual menu and select Compress to produce the zip file.
hi this problem come from from your usb disk wich is formatted in msdos mode and your files are too big. if you format your key with mac os format, it can solve your problem
Thank you. I don't know about the size of the files being the problem, as I was able to copy a folder of files ok, but then couldn't move it into another folder...
But I did find that reformatting helped. I thought I had "apple-ized" the drive (which had formerly been used in a Windows machine, but perhaps I selected a wrong option in doing so.
In any case, completely re-doing the HD (new partition, new formatting) seems to have fixed it.
Thanks again!
copy/move problem: error code -50
