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<blockquote data-quote="mrplow" data-source="post: 1488142" data-attributes="member: 38928"><p>OK.</p><p></p><p>Different file systems have differing abilities. You apply these file systems to a disk when it is formatted. You Mac disk (and Time Machine disk) will be currently formatted as HFS+ (Mac OS Journaled) and your external disk (the recipient of the files you're trying to copy) is formatted with FAT32 (as previously discussed)</p><p></p><p>You have already noted what works and what doesn't:</p><p></p><p></p><p>Based on your own observations, it's the way you have everything organised that's causing the issues. But it's obviously not an issue for your Mac as you can read/write to these files ok.</p><p>Based on that, I suggest formatting the external disk as HFS+(Mac OS Journaled) - the same as your Mac HD - and trying the copy again. This may not be how you want the disk left but it will help debug the issue.</p><p>If it works, that's your answer, the recipient file system (i.e. the formatting of the external hard disk) can't support the depth of the folder structure.</p><p>As a rule of thumb most file systems can't handle the full path to a file being more than 255 characters.</p><p>I'd say the limitation here is the format of the external disk. What you've mentioned about SuperDuper wanting to reformat to 'osx compatible' just supports that even more.</p><p></p><p>Until you try a different format on the external or re-organise your file structure I don't think you'll find a solution.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well. You have a full Time Machine backup anyway so this backup is just a backup backup.</p><p>The OS can backup everything on the fly via Time Machine as it's integrated and can take files out of service to prevent locking etc. Something third party software will struggle to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrplow, post: 1488142, member: 38928"] OK. Different file systems have differing abilities. You apply these file systems to a disk when it is formatted. You Mac disk (and Time Machine disk) will be currently formatted as HFS+ (Mac OS Journaled) and your external disk (the recipient of the files you're trying to copy) is formatted with FAT32 (as previously discussed) You have already noted what works and what doesn't: Based on your own observations, it's the way you have everything organised that's causing the issues. But it's obviously not an issue for your Mac as you can read/write to these files ok. Based on that, I suggest formatting the external disk as HFS+(Mac OS Journaled) - the same as your Mac HD - and trying the copy again. This may not be how you want the disk left but it will help debug the issue. If it works, that's your answer, the recipient file system (i.e. the formatting of the external hard disk) can't support the depth of the folder structure. As a rule of thumb most file systems can't handle the full path to a file being more than 255 characters. I'd say the limitation here is the format of the external disk. What you've mentioned about SuperDuper wanting to reformat to 'osx compatible' just supports that even more. Until you try a different format on the external or re-organise your file structure I don't think you'll find a solution. Well. You have a full Time Machine backup anyway so this backup is just a backup backup. The OS can backup everything on the fly via Time Machine as it's integrated and can take files out of service to prevent locking etc. Something third party software will struggle to do. [/QUOTE]
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