Error code 8072 trying to copy groups of files from external HD to another?

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Error code 8072 trying to copy groups of files from external HD to another?

I started to copy (and even cut) and paste files from 1 external HD to a 2nd external HD. Drives are formatted NTFS. If I select single files, 1 at a time, I don't see the error (unless I simply lucked out and didn't copy 1 causing the error).

I have checked "info" on files and made sure they were not locked just in case that was the problem but it made no difference.

So...what do I do to fix so I can continue to copy large blocks of files? I have 2 drives - 4 TB each - so can't imagine doing it 1 file at a time!

Mac mini (Mid 2010), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Apr 28, 2018 5:01 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 28, 2018 5:59 AM in response to Hotkey

Do you have an up to date version of software to support writing to NTFS drives?

Your mac needs third party software for this and it needs to be updated to be compatible with High Sierra.

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Answer 2

May 5, 2018 2:50 AM in response to Hotkey

I am not familiar with the way this is actually implemented, but copy/paste would in principle involve the system clipboard, whereas dragging shouldn't - it should just pass the proper arguments directly to underlying file routines.

Copy/paste for files and folders in the Finder is something that was not common in the Mac for many years.

Classical MacOS never had this. Dragging was the official way.

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Answer 3

May 4, 2018 2:10 AM in response to Hotkey

I am thinking there may some problem with one of the drives.

Since you mentioned copy and pasting causing problems... does it work if instead of that you drag files from one to the other?

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May 4, 2018 4:10 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Luis - I hope I don't jinx the process but dragging seems to be working! Why would that be any different?

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Apr 28, 2018 9:09 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Hi Luis. Thanks for helping! I do have software - Tuxera and it has the latest 2018 update applied. I have Googled the error but I only see command line action s to allow a file delete from hard drives. I'm lost as to how to get this fixed for batch file moving.

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