While copying gigabytes of
data from an external USB2 drive to the internal Powerbook
drive some strange "duplicate file" errors appeared. They only
appear when I am doing a large transfer (>200 MB) with
subdirectories. When I copy these larger directories in parts
the errors do not occur. The drive I am copying from is a 40GB
16MB cache Toshiba 2.5" drive formatted using the FAT32
filesystem.
It's a little annoying, but I can live with it
in the short-term: I just want to back it all up so I can
format it and throw it into the old Thinkpad A31
temporary computer.
Another very annoying usability issue is that
the Finder does not tell you where an error occured when
copying a directory tree. It tells you the name of the file
the error occured with but not the location of the file. This
is also an issue under Windows, I was just hoping it wouldn't
be with MacOSX.
