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jocka73 · Jul 14, 2013

Can anyone please help?
I was in the process of copying files (in folders) to an external drive and the power was interrupted. Now the folder name exists (but is grey/gray) and says that there is 2.27Gb in the folder but i can't see the contents. How can i fix this?

louishen · Jul 14, 2013

can you overwrite the old folder by copying again?

jocka73 · Jul 14, 2013

louishen said:
can you overwrite the old folder by copying again?

hi louishen, when i try doing this i get this message "The selected items can’t all be put into the same location, because at least one of them named “2001” is busy."

louishen · Jul 14, 2013

OPen up the terminal program and at the promote type

sudo rm -rf

then a space (dont hit return yet

From the finder drag the greyed out folder into the terminal window so you get something like this

sudo rm -rf /Volumes/Media/Greyedoutfolder

hit return - that will delete the errant folder

pigoo3 · Jul 14, 2013

I say delete everything (partial copy) that is on the external drive...then try doing the copy again.

I also find if you are trying to copy a large amount of files...that doing it in smaller chunks is better. In other words...don't try copying 20,000 files all at once.

- Nick

harryb2448 · Jul 14, 2013

And even suggest erase the external, reformatting and trying again.

jocka73 · Jul 14, 2013

Thanks for your help. If i do this, are the files that were in the process of being copied (moved, as it was a drag and drop) contained in the grayed out folder. Have these files actually been moved or are they still in their original location.

jocka73 · Jul 14, 2013

louishen said:
OPen up the terminal program and at the promote type then a space (dont hit return yet

From the finder drag the greyed out folder into the terminal window so you get something like this

hit return - that will delete the errant folder

Thanks for your help. If i do this, are the files that were in the process of being copied (moved, as it was a drag and drop) contained in the grayed out folder. Have these files actually been moved or are they still in their original location.

jocka73 · Jul 14, 2013

pigoo3 said:
I say delete everything (partial copy) that is on the external drive...then try doing the copy again.

I also find if you are trying to copy a large amount of files...that doing it in smaller chunks is better. In other words...don't try copying 20,000 files all at once.

- Nick

Thank you...i shall definitely move smaller chunks in future

thanks for your help

jocka73 · Jul 14, 2013

harryb2448 said:
And even suggest erase the external, reformatting and trying again.

not really an option to reformat the external, as almost 2T of data already stored there.

harryb2448 · Jul 14, 2013

Fingers crossed. Possible the external may have been corrupted by the power failure.

pigoo3 · Jul 14, 2013

jocka73 said:
Thanks for your help. If i do this, are the files that were in the process of being copied (moved, as it was a drag and drop) contained in the grayed out folder. Have these files actually been moved or are they still in their original location.

If the original files were on an internal HD...and you wanted them stored on an external HD...then what you were doing was "copying" them from the internal to the external.

When the "copy" process was interrupted (or completed eventually)...the original files on the internal HD would still be there (untouched)...and you would also have brand new copies of the files on the external HD.

So to make a long story short...the files you were transferring to the external HD are untouched on your internal HD.

- Nick

jocka73 · Jul 15, 2013

pigoo3 said:
If the original files were on an internal HD...and you wanted them stored on an external HD...then what you were doing was "copying" them from the internal to the external.

When the "copy" process was interrupted (or completed eventually)...the original files on the internal HD would still be there (untouched)...and you would also have brand new copies of the files on the external HD.

So to make a long story short...the files you were transferring to the external HD are untouched on your internal HD.

- Nick

Thanks so much Nick, it makes perfect sense. My only issue is that i was moving one folder to another on an external drive...would the results be the same?

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