Error "COPYING MUSIC FAILED. The disk could not be read from or written to"

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Error "COPYING MUSIC FAILED. The disk could not be read from or written to"

After following the procedurest to move the iTunes music, the computer started whirring away, happily copying and consolidating all the song files to the new target folder.

After copying 68gigs of 130gigs perfectly, it stopped dead and the following iTunes error message appeared:

"COPYING MUSIC FAILED. THE DISK COULD NOT BE READ FROM OR WRITTEN TO"

I am copying to an external LaCie 500g hard disk, and the current music file is split between folders on the laptop and folders and a 2nd external LaCie Hard disk. It did not appear to have any problems copying and consolidating files from both locations, until the error message showed up.

How can I solve this?

I really need to consolidate this music file.

macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Mar 24, 2007 5:50 AM

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Answer 1

sirsax Author

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Mar 24, 2007 6:24 AM in response to sirsax

A bit of further info -- I have repaired disk permissions, no joy.

Also looked closely at the folders in the target new music folder on the external hard drive...there are any number of folders and 30 or 40 tunes that were the batch to be copied during the "consolidate", so there is no way for me to tell which was the last file copied over.

Anyway, wouldn't the problem be with the NEXT to last file copied over? Which is somewhere in the other two music folders on the other two drives?

I have been stuck on this for days, any help most appreciated.

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Answer 2

sirsax Author

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Mar 24, 2007 8:00 AM in response to sirsax

OK I figured it out!

It was a dodgy file....I sorted the file folders by date, and as it turned out within the "compilations" folder there was a CD where only about half the tracks seemed to have been copied over. Could not have identified this simply from the time indicated on the finder folder sort, because there were several CDs copied over in the that same minute.

I went back to the original itunes folder, deleted all the files from that CD in itunes, then also deleted all those files from the original disk and the target disk.

Tried the "consolidate library" again, and it completed nicely. 200megs of music and videos.

Very happy to solve this problem after 3 weeks.

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Answer 3

Kajitsu

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May 24, 2007 4:15 PM in response to sirsax

Yes, well I have 5,000 songs and I'm not moving them anywhere, except to my iPod. I have no way of knowing which song is having a problem!

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