[MacDV] Quicktime .mov files - cannot transfer to firewire?

[John Mistretta]

I just googled error codes (http://www.ed.psu.edu/etc/mac/errors.html) 
and got this pithy description of -36, "ioErr" which doesn't tell me 
anything but seems to suggest imput-output error. Whatever that is. . .

There used to be file size limits in older Mac OS's but I can't imagine 
6 gigs would be a problem now. I'm guessing that you have a corrupted 
file that for reasons beyond me, is too damaged for the finder to copy 
from one drive to another. Since it's always the same 4 gb spot of the 
file that it glitches on, I'm guessing that as you watch it, you'll 
find a glitch in the video around the 2/3rds mark. As a prior post 
suggested, maybe you can split the file before and after the glitch and 
copy it over in two parts.

A  workaround is to compress the file into a stuffit file and see if 
it'll copy over that way. Alternatively you can try puting the file 
into a disk image of it and see if it'll transfer. (dunno if the OS 
makes a disk image that big). Lastly, find a copy of the program Carbon 
Copy Cloner and use that to transfer the file. . .

Good luck!

On Feb 15, 2005, at 4:26 PM, KathyMac! wrote:

> I have several .mov files on my hard drive as well as my firewire 
> drives. These files are about 6gb.
> I cannot copy them from one drive to another. Every single time it 
> stops at the 4gb mark with the error code of -36 and the message "The 
> finder cannot complete the operation because some data in 'clip.mov' 
> could not be read or written".
>
> No matter which drive I use. I have swapped 3 firewire drives, changed 
> cables, used 3 different internal hard drives on my G4. Then the 
> problem is the same when I take it to the G4 iMac with other firewire 
> drives.