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I am trying to copy a file from one hard drive to another. It's a fairly large file (3.6 GB), and I very much need it to copy.
Copying or duplicating the file results in this error message:
Is there any way to salvage this file at all?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 3.4 GHz i7, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD
error 36 is an input / output error.
For some reason it can't be moved.
I dont know what the file is, your link does not work. Perhaps open it again in the application that created it and resave it if possible.
Also consider not everthing is salvagable and some things do get lost along the way.
Hi roam,
The error message says, "The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in "MFA Mail" can't be read or written. (Error code -36)"
The file I'm trying to move contains a large volume of archived emails. I can't access the file when it's not in the correct folder, and I can't seem to move it to any other folder either on the same volume or a different volume.
'MFA Mail' does not ring a bell.
This is my (custom)error info (also on 10.6.8)
~ $ errcheck -36
ioErr = -36, /*I/O error (bummers)*/
that does not sound good. 😉
I'm no Mail guru, in fact I have no disciples at all, but what was the application that created these emails?
Was it in Apple Mail or some program from another system?
edit
now 1:15 am Catch up with you tomorrow, Craig
"MFA Mail" is the name of the file I am trying to copy. It is the name of one of my email folders in Thunderbird. You shouldn't have heard of it.
I know that the -36 error is an i/o error. What I want to know is whether there's any way to salvage it.
Thanks for your input roam, get some good sleep 🙂
So basically you are having a problem with Thunderbird?. I have no experience with that application, though others may have come across your problem before.
You could also post in the Thunderbird forum. Sorry, I could not be any help.
No, I'm having a problem copying this file. I need to replace this hard drive, and this one file is the last thing I can't seem to recover. It contains stored emails that I'd prefer not to have to lose. If I could access the file from Thunderbird, I could move the emails that way, but the drive will not let me boot.
but the drive will not let me boot
There is a clue. Maybe the particular error message is more to do with the drive than the file. Perhaps the drive surface has a fault just where this file is. It is 3.6GB large so it would cover a fair area, and could be affected by defective memory blocks on the disk.
You could try and repair the drive with Disk utility, failing that you could try Disk Warrior, which has been known to recover seemingly disabled drives that are beyond DU's ability to repair.
Yes, I'm worried that the drive has developed some kind of fault in the "space" where this file is.
The drive is an SSD. Can an SSD be corrupted in the same way as a regular platter-based hard drive? I didn't think they could be.
I appreciate your thoughts, by the way.
Craig Weiland wrote:
The drive is an SSD. Can an SSD be corrupted in the same way as a regular platter-based hard drive?
I didn't think they could be.
Neither did I, but they are rather new.
Try Disk Warrior, perhaps it can fix the file structure, next take the SSD to a Linux geek if that don't work.
Disk Warrior did the trick.
It did not allow me to copy the file, but it did allow me to boot from the drive. Once I could boot, I could access the data directly from Thunderbird, transfer the emails to newly created folders, and the copy those folders to the other hard drive. My data has been recovered from the corrupted file.
Thanks ds store & roam for your suggestion. DW was well worth the money.
That's great news. When DW saves a drive, that's a glad feeling for sure.🙂
How do I salvage a file that is giving an Error code -36?
