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Hey all, first post here.
Spent a while with the search function in an effort to avoid having to ask this question but I couldn't find anything relevant in the 10 or 15 minutes I decided to devote to looking.
Switched over from pc about a week ago. Loving everything so far but now it has come time to start my music production again. I need to transfer my music (and ultimately movies, pics, etc) over from my external HD. I stored EVERYTHING externally on my PC because I liked to be able to skip around from machine to machine.
I know that Win uses NTFS format, and sure enough when I cmd+i 'd on the drive it confirmed that. I also know that OSX should be able to at least read that NTFS drive. So I should be able to get my stuff off of there, reformat the drive, then put it back on.
When I went to copy my music folder, I went in and selected all my artist folders and cmd+c. Then I went to my internal "My Music" folder and cmd+v.
Everything starts off alright but after about 50-60 gigs I get an "unexpected error 8062" and the transfer stops. I have tried selecting everything again and then pasting it back into the my music folder, selecting to skip the files that are already there. It just crashed again. So I delete everything from my music and started the transfer again- same result.
So now I am trying to archive my whole music folder, creating archive.zip on my internal hd. I expect this to fail though, as it failed with the previous transfers.
Can anyone think of a reason why I can't retrieve my music from an NTFS drive. Im not trying to write to it at all. Also, something the copy box just "poof", disappears without showing the error.
I'm sorry if this has already been brought up but I'm new to mac, and to this forum and really just need a bro right now who can help me out.
tl/dr: Can't get my music to transfer from NTFS external to my mac's internal. Error 8062. Ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Spent a while with the search function in an effort to avoid having to ask this question but I couldn't find anything relevant in the 10 or 15 minutes I decided to devote to looking.
Switched over from pc about a week ago. Loving everything so far but now it has come time to start my music production again. I need to transfer my music (and ultimately movies, pics, etc) over from my external HD. I stored EVERYTHING externally on my PC because I liked to be able to skip around from machine to machine.
I know that Win uses NTFS format, and sure enough when I cmd+i 'd on the drive it confirmed that. I also know that OSX should be able to at least read that NTFS drive. So I should be able to get my stuff off of there, reformat the drive, then put it back on.
When I went to copy my music folder, I went in and selected all my artist folders and cmd+c. Then I went to my internal "My Music" folder and cmd+v.
Everything starts off alright but after about 50-60 gigs I get an "unexpected error 8062" and the transfer stops. I have tried selecting everything again and then pasting it back into the my music folder, selecting to skip the files that are already there. It just crashed again. So I delete everything from my music and started the transfer again- same result.
So now I am trying to archive my whole music folder, creating archive.zip on my internal hd. I expect this to fail though, as it failed with the previous transfers.
Can anyone think of a reason why I can't retrieve my music from an NTFS drive. Im not trying to write to it at all. Also, something the copy box just "poof", disappears without showing the error.
I'm sorry if this has already been brought up but I'm new to mac, and to this forum and really just need a bro right now who can help me out.
tl/dr: Can't get my music to transfer from NTFS external to my mac's internal. Error 8062. Ideas?
Thanks in advance.