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guitar man

(15,996 posts) Fri Feb 3, 2012, 03:04 PM Feb 2012

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What kind of fresh hell is this?

I'm trying to copy files from my hard drive to a flash drive. The flash drive is formatted in OSX Extended Journaled. I keeo getting an error part way through thet transfer that says something like "cannot complete the operation, the file DS-Store already exists"

time is of the essence and it's really pissing me off

Thanks in advance for any help

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What kind of fresh hell is this? (Original Post) guitar man Feb 2012 OP

Are you certain the flash drive is OS X format? I got that message a few times when copying to a Win Stinky The Clown Feb 2012 #1

Might be the Flash drive is bad. Lost-in-FL Feb 2012 #2

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Stinky The Clown

(67,779 posts)

1. Are you certain the flash drive is OS X format? I got that message a few times when copying to a Win

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Fri Feb 3, 2012, 11:42 PM

Feb 2012

machine.

I don't recall what I did. A DS Store is a file that I only see on Win machines when a Mac file got copied there.

Lost-in-FL

(7,093 posts)

2. Might be the Flash drive is bad.

Reply to guitar man (Original post)

Sat Feb 4, 2012, 12:34 AM

Feb 2012

They do go out after a while.

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