Copying of Data through HFM Copy utility fails wit unspecified error

All,
We are receiving some strange error . Please help if you have any input to this.
The error message shows :
Error : Failed to copy all available data from table XYZ_DCE_1_2008 to table ABC_DCE_1_2008. This may be a driver or DBMS error. Please review driver and DB logs!
Error : Processing aborted for table XYZ_DCE_1_2008. Reason: Unspecified error
I need help to understand , what should be the root cause of this error ? What should be the fix for the same?
Thanks,
Laxmikant

Laxmikanth,
What version of HFM are you on? If you are on 11.1.1.3 and using a 64 bit HFMCopyUtlity, then there is a known bug/issue with that. It fails and you would get the DB errors. We also faced a similar issue and Oracle support recommended to use a 32 bit HFM CopyUtility from a 32 bit server.
It works fine. Hiope this helps!!
Thanks,
SSP

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My system is 10.5.8, iTunes 9.2.1 (4)
I tried to consolidate my iTunes library to an external HD. After about 100GB of copied music, I got the message : Copying files failed. The File name was invalid.
Now everytime I try again to consolidate, I get immediately this message. I am looking everywhere for a solution, and I only find the same problem for Windows iTunes users.
Actually I found very useful this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1708372,
which talks about with which order iTunes consolidates the media, so by digging a little in the folders to find which track has the problem and make the fix. It says that consolidate start copy the files by the date added order. So I can go in my new iTunes media folder and find the latest added track, then go back in iTunes, sort by date added the songs and locate the next song, to make the fix. However in my case, all previous and next songs (by date added), have been copied in the new locations.
I am stuck. I have a remaining 300GB of music to consolidate and dont know how to proceed.
Any help would be much appreciated..

Finaly, I managed to solve it by myself...,
following the help I found from the post of the thread I mentioned on my question...
What was the problem that made things more difficult in my case, is that a big amount of songs have been added at the same time, with just a few seconds time distance. So it was tougher to locate what was the last imported song, and where iTunes consolidation had stopped. Actually I had groups of about 100 songs with the same timestamp of date added and the consolidation was following the rule of the "date added" but not exactly with the order the songs was showing in the iTuned library. So I started checking all the songs very close to the last added in the media folder one by one with the "show in finder" command, and then I managed to found what was the one with the problem.
Regarding the problematic file, that was a midi file that had been imported in my iTunes.
I hope this will help anyone else that might have the same problem as me in the future.

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