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Error code 0 when copying a large file to a Mac OS Extended formatted drive

I always back up my photos manually by dragging a folder containing many folders containing many photos into an external drive that I immediately formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) the day I bought it 2 years ago. I now run into a Error Code 0 when I do this. The "mother" folder is 240 GB in size. As I stated, this drive has been formatted for the Mac, so I don't understand why it's (apparently) running into a problem peculiar to FAT32-formatted drives. My iMac has 16 GB of RAM, of which 10 GB was free, the last time I tried to do this.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 27" 3.4 i7

Posted on Jul 31, 2013 10:02 AM

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Jul 31, 2013 10:47 AM in response to dinosoar

Well, you did mention...


so I don't understand why it's (apparently) running into a problem peculiar to FAT32-formatted drives


I kind of had to assume at that point the source drive was the one you formatted as Mac OS Extended two years ago, and the target drive was FAT32. If not, then I'm not sure why you mentioned FAT32 at all.


In that same thinking, error code 0 is directly related to FAT formatted drives.

Error code 0 when copying a large file to a Mac OS Extended formatted drive

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