Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /.journal to (null)

Not a huge concern since TM is still backing up successfully, but I didn't see this specific error in the troubleshooting guide. Maybe I'm a little OCD but when I see any errors in logs I get a bit twitchy.
Anyway, my TM log is:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Hades/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.04 GB requested (including padding), 76.87 GB available
*Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /.journal to (null)*
Copied 4426 files (16.8 MB) from volume Pandemonium.
No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.67 GB requested (including padding), 76.85 GB available
*Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /.journal to (null)*
Copied 692 files (570.0 MB) from volume Pandemonium.
Starting post-backup thinning
Deleted backup /Volumes/Hades/Backups.backupdb/LJ Eden's G5/2010-03-09-211639: 76.28 GB now available
Post-back up thinning complete
I guess my question is... or questions are, what does that error mean and how can I make it go away?
Thanks a bunch.
Oh, and if it matters... the volume I'm using as my TM is an external firewire drive.

That's odd. /.journal is a hidden file, and not a standard one on an OSX drive.
Do you have any idea what it is?
You could look at it via #A3 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
As you say, it's not causing the backup to fail, but you can exclude it, per the green box in #C3 of the Troubleshooting Tip.

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Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Cathe%[email protected]/TC%20Cathe
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2008 iMac
2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo
4 GB of 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Version 10.7.5 OSX
External G-Drive 500 GB HD connected via Firewire.
Late yesterday my iMac started acting crazy. On reboot the machine did not come back up and was hung up on the Apple Logo. The circular progress meter was spinning and the system would not boot into the OS. At this point I started the system with the command key and R to get to the ulitlity menu. At this point I initiated a full system restore back to a backup dated June 10th 2013. The restore ran clean with no errors and the system came back up. At this point I wiped out my G-Drive so that I could take a full backup of the system. I partitioned the G-Drive 400 GB for Time Machine and 100 GB to manually backup photos and other files. I created the partition and manually backup family photos since it seems that at times I've added photos into iPhoto and they don't get added into the backup sets.
At this point I noticed that the Spotlight Indexing job was running in the background. The same time the Time Machine Full backup was running and initated and I'm not sure what happend. I recieved a generic error stating that the backup could not be completed at this time. Backups to disk will not run and recieve the same error. It appears that there are a ton of files on my mac HD that have this Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES error. I've tried a few things:
Using Terminal to mv or cp the files locally on the mac HD. This fails with I/O Errors
Using Terminal to mv or cp the files to the backup HD connected via FireWire. That fails with I/O Errors.
I've confirmed that the files are readable by the application. iMovie in this case. I was able to play the video content. So I belive that the files are in fact ok and good.
I've manually ran a full reindexing of spotlight. I suspected that the indexing was out of sync and that Time Machine was having a hard time with the metadata.
I've also confirmed that JPG file had this error in the /var/logs/system.log. I was able to open the JPG with preview and iPhoto with no issues. But, I can not copy or move the file to any locations on either the HD or the Backup HD.
Permissions on the files are rw-r-r. In another case I changed them to rw-rw-rw and that still did not make a difference as I would have expected.
My fear is that my Mac HD is getting ready to take a DUMP literally. Most of the stuff on the machine I don't care about however I do care about the family photo's and videos. To this point I've been able to manually backup my photos to the external disk. I have not yet backed up my videos. Starting to get stressed about that. I was about to take the PC in to Apple Care at the local store but wanted to disucss here as well. Any help would be appreciated.
Excerpt from /var/logs/system.log just prior to backup failing last night.
Jul 3 06:26:32 mikes-imac com.apple.backupd[1285]: Copied 165 files (78.0 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Jul 3 06:26:32 mikes-imac com.apple.backupd[1285]: Copy stage failed with error:11
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TM fails to Backup certain files - Error: (-41) SrcErr:NO Copying

Hi,
TM fails to backup certain files and I have no idea how to fix it. This is the error log:
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Previously clients were bound to AD with ADMitMac running 10.5.8 using Time Machine and everything is great for months...
Upgrade to Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and uninstall ADMitMac and bind the clients to AD using built in Active Directory Plug-in. Everything works great except that Time Machine fails on all three computers which were upgraded. Here's what I've tried to solve the problem:
1) Went into TM preferences and under "Select Disk..." set it to "None" and told TM to "Stop Backing Up" to turn TM off.
2) Went into /Library/Preferences and deleted the com.apple.TimeMachine.plist file.
3) Launched Disk Utility and reformatted the backup drive using a different name and made sure that it was formatted "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
4) When it finished it's format it prompted me to set as Time Machine Backup Disk which I did.
At this point the backup runs backs up about half the drive and then I get the following types of errors in the Time Machine Logs...
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Nov 3 10:21:02 w881112uyp4 com.apple.backupd[4466]: Error: (-41)
SrcErr:NO Copying
/Users/.../Documents/.../Contents/Frameworks/DBEngine.framework/Versions/A/DBEng ine to
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/private/var/root/Desktop/.../Documents/.../Contents/Frameworks/DBEngine.framewo rk/Versions/A/DBEngine
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/private/var/root/Desktop/.../Documents/.../Contents/Frameworks/DBEngine.framewo rk/Versions/A/DBEngine
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I can rule out a couple of different things... This occurs on two MacBook Pros and a MacPro Tower. The MacPro has a second internal drive and the two laptops have external drives connected via FW800. The two laptops are using different models of LaCie drives. So it's not model specific or something related to the type of drives or connections being used.
I've repaired permissions on the source and target drives and run Disk Warrior 4.2 on them as well. I've tried running the time machine backup as a local administrator account in case it was a problem with their mobile user accounts with the same results. After doing the upgrade I had rebuilt the user's mobile accounts and in doing so did a recursive chown (sudo chown -R user:group "user's home folder") so there shouldn't be a permissions issue with these files anyway.
So it's something to do with the data that TM is attempting to copy, but if it's not permissions then what is it? I don't believe that this data just became corrupted all of the sudden as TM was able to backup all this same data under 10.5.8 only hours before the snow leopard upgrade.
My experience with Snow Leopard has been pretty good so far, but I'm seeing some serious inconsistencies with file permissions and I think this is what is causing this problem. I'm guessing it's something to do with ACLs going wonky, but insofar I've been unable to find and fix the problem.

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Hello
It seems there is a bug in Time Machine which never occured in 10.5.8
We had a Mac OS X Server 10.5, with 2 external RAIDs, one with the SharePoints of Data and one as Time Machine Volume. This solution runs soomthly for 1 1/2 year.
Now we updated the OS X server from 10.5.8 to 10.6.4 with a clean install.
Since then it wasn't possible to make a finished BackUp with time machine. It stucks always. In the Console it listed the errors.
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Then I exclude the Data Volume and the BackUp of the bootVolume (server) runs fine. On the Data Volume are 4 Sharepoints. Owner is the administror and all the ACL and access-right are the same for the subfolders.
Of these 4 SharePounts, I individually exclude them. 1 runs smoothly with 3 I have problems.
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I am very ****** off that Time Machine does'nt finished the backup and give me a list with all the errors.
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The last option I have it that is change back from 10.6 to 10.5.
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Gerard Dirks wrote:
Hello Pondini
I running on this machine an OS X Server 10.6. In a unofficial note is written that this server software has builtin ClamAV (http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/specs.html), but we are not using the mail services!
Ah, I'd not seen that. ClamXav is free, and about the only one recommended here to find PC viruses so you don't pass them between Windoze machines, as it's not intrusive or damaging to the OS as most other anti-virus products are.
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Agreed, there's no point to that. It's doubtful there's really anything wrong with the files. There does appear to be something wrong with the drive or file system, though.
Are you sure the drive is compatible with Snow Leopard? A number of drives that worked fine with Leopard needed new firmware or drivers to work well with Snow Leopard. Check with the maker.
If Apple has no fix in the next 10 days I will switch back to 10.5.8 server (and leave all that buggy new features for other people wo want to be experimental users for the staff of Apple)
You're not talking to Apple here -- this is a user-to-user forum.
Post your feedback here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/server.html
Or, much better, call AppleCare, via the Contact link at the bottom of this page.

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Until recently I could not get an easy answer and it seemed that various people had success by:
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solongpc wrote:
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Yeah, many of us would love it! But no such thing exists, at least not that us mere mortals can find.
There might be another variable that I don't understand right now but at least it is consistent.
Could it be something funky in the name of one of the folders? Or could the folder object itself be corrupt? Or have some odd extended attribute?
All I can suggest is calling AppleCare, and/or reporting it as a bug:
*_Submitting a +Bug Report+ to Apple._*
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This requires a membership in the +Apple Developer Connection,+ but you can get one for free.
Register here: http://developer.apple.com/programs/start/register/create.php
Once you receive the confirmation, go to: https://bugreport.apple.com and login.
Click +New Problem+ at the top.
Click Help at the top, and/or any of the items underlined in blue for more information.
Provide as much specific detail as possible, and attach a log, screenshot, etc., as appropriate in the lower section.
When done, click Submit at the bottom.

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 $choice1Count = mysql_num_rows($sql1);
 $sql2 = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM votingPoll WHERE choice='2'");
 $choice2Count = mysql_num_rows($sql2);
 $sql3 = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM votingPoll WHERE choice='3'");
 $choice3Count = mysql_num_rows($sql3);
 echo "choice1Count=$choice1Count";
 echo "&choice2Count=$choice2Count";
 echo "&choice3Count=$choice3Count";
// ---------------------------------------- Section 2 -----------------------------------------------
// IF POSTING A USER'S CHOICE
if ($_POST['myRequest'] == "store_choice") {
 //Obtain user IP address
 $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
 // Create local variable from the Flash ActionScript posted variable
 $userChoice = $_POST['userChoice'];
 $sql = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM votingPoll WHERE ipaddress='$ip'");
 $rowCount = mysql_num_rows($sql);
 if ($rowCount == 1) {
$my_msg = "You have already voted in this poll.";
print "return_msg=$my_msg";
 } else {
$sql_insert = mysql_query("INSERT INTO votingPoll (choice, ipaddress) VALUES('$userChoice','$ip')") or die (mysql_error());
$sql1 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM votingPoll WHERE choice='1'");
$choice1Count = mysql_num_rows($sql1);
$sql2 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM votingPoll WHERE choice='2'");
$choice2Count = mysql_num_rows($sql2);
$sql3 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM votingPoll WHERE choice='3'");
$choice3Count = mysql_num_rows($sql3);
$my_msg = "Thanks for voting!";
 echo "return_msg=$my_msg";
 echo "&choice1Count=$choice1Count";
echo "&choice2Count=$choice2Count";
echo "&choice3Count=$choice3Count";
?>
AS3 code:
stop(); // Stop the timeline since it does not need to travel for this to run
// Assign a variable name for our URLVariables object
var variables1:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
// Build the varSend variable
var varSend1:URLRequest = new URLRequest("parse_my_poll.php");
varSend1.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
varSend1.data = variables1;
// Build the varLoader variable
var varLoader1:URLLoader = new URLLoader;
varLoader1.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
varLoader1.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler1);
// Set variable to send to PHP here for the varloader below
variables1.myRequest = "load_numbers";
// Send data to php file now, and wait for response using the COMPLETE event
varLoader1.load(varSend1);
function completeHandler1(event:Event):void{
 count1_txt.text = "" + event.target.data.choice1Count;
 count2_txt.text = "" + event.target.data.choice2Count;
 count3_txt.text = "" + event.target.data.choice3Count;
// hide the little processing movieclip
processing_mc.visible = false;
// Initialize the choiceNum variable that we will use below
var choiceNum:Number = 0;
// Set text formatting colors for errors and success messages
var errorsFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
errorsFormat.color = 0xFF0000; // bright red
var successFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
successFormat.color = 0x00FF00; // bright green
// Button Click Functions
function btn1Click(event:MouseEvent):void{
 choiceNum = 1;
 choice_txt.text = choice1_txt.text;
function btn2Click(event:MouseEvent):void{
 choiceNum = 2;
 choice_txt.text = choice2_txt.text;
function btn3Click(event:MouseEvent):void{
 choiceNum = 3;
 choice_txt.text = choice3_txt.text;
// Button Click Listeners
btn1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btn1Click);
btn2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btn2Click);
btn3.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, btn3Click);
// Assign a variable name for our URLVariables object
var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
// Build the varSend variable
var varSend:URLRequest = new URLRequest("parse_my_poll.php");
varSend.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
varSend.data = variables;
// Build the varLoader variable
var varLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader;
varLoader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
varLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
// Handler for PHP script completion and return
function completeHandler(event:Event):void{
 // remove processing movieclip
 processing_mc.visible = false;
 // Clear the form fields
 choice_txt.text = "";
 choiceNum = 0;
 // Load the response from the PHP file
 status_txt.text = event.target.data.return_msg;
 status_txt.setTextFormat(errorsFormat);
 if (event.target.data.return_msg == "Thanks for voting!") {
 // Reload new values into the count texts only if we get a proper response and new values
 status_txt.setTextFormat(successFormat);
 count1_txt.text = "" + event.target.data.choice1Count;
 count2_txt.text = "" + event.target.data.choice2Count;
 count3_txt.text = "" + event.target.data.choice3Count;
// Add an event listener for the submit button and what function to run
vote_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, ValidateAndSend);
// Validate form fields and send the variables when submit button is clicked
function ValidateAndSend(event:MouseEvent):void {
 //validate form fields
 if(!choice_txt.length) {
 // if they forgot to choose before pressing the vote button
 status_txt.text = "Please choose before you press vote.";
 status_txt.setTextFormat(errorsFormat);
 } else {
 status_txt.text = "Sending...";
 processing_mc.visible = true;
 // Ready the variables for sending
 variables.userChoice = choiceNum;
 variables.myRequest = "store_choice";
 // Send the data to the php file
 varLoader.load(varSend);
 } // close else after form validation
} // Close ValidateAndSend function ////////////////////////

This error means that you are trying to set the text field but there is no data in the variable. As a first step, try to identify where this is happening, eg Is it the first call, or once you have submitted your data or only if you try to submit data second time?
Trace out the data that is returned for both completeHandlers to see if there is a missing var. Try this for "load_numbers" and "store_choice". Do it twice for "store_choice". Do you get back what you expected?
You could also try altering the php to return some fixed dummy variables, eg choice1Count=11&choice2Count=22&choice3Count=33, etc. If this works then you know that the error is in the PHP.
It looks to me like the issue is when you submit the data a second time and just get back the return_msg - the handler then tries to assign the choice1Count etc but doesn't have any count data back from the poll.php.
Test that there is data before assigning it, eg
 if(event.target.data.choice1Count){
 count1_txt.text = event.target.data.choice1Count;
 count2_txt.text = event.target.data.choice2Count;
 count3_txt.text = event.target.data.choice3Count;

ActionScript 3 + PHP: TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter text must be non-null.

Hi - Still new to flash as3 and php -
it is a contact form page - user puts in information - i am to receive it in an email address their information
as well the variables get sent back from the php to the .swf file.
I am receiving these errors and not knowing how to fix them.
any help would be much appreciated. thank you in advance really.
below are the errors in flash - as3 code - and php code setup.
errors:
ActionScript 3 + PHP: TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter text must be non-null:
at flash.text::TextField/set text()
 at kwangjaekim_fla::wholeform_16/completeHandler()
 at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
 at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
 at flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader::onComplete()
my as3 code is the following:
// build variable name for the URL Variables loader
var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
//Build the varSend variable
var varSend:URLRequest = new URLRequest("contact_parse.php");
varSend.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
varSend.data = variables;
//Build the varLoader variable
var varLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader;
varLoader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
varLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);
//handler for the PHP script completion and return of status
function completeHandler(event:Event):void{
 //value is cleared at ""
 name_txt.text = "";
 contact_txt.text = "";
 msg_txt.text = "";
 //Load the response PHP here
 status_txt.text = event.target.data.return_msg;
//Add event listener for submit button click
submit_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, ValidateAndSend);
//function ValidateAndSend
function ValidateAndSend(event:MouseEvent):void{
 //validate fields
 if(!name_txt.length){
 status_txt.text = "Please Enter Your Name";
 }else if(!contact_txt.length){
 status_txt.text = "Please Enter Your Contact Detail";
 }else if(!msg_txt.length){
 status_txt.text = "Please Enter Your Message";
 }else {
 // ready the variables in form for sending
variables.userName = name_txt.text;
 variables.userContact = contact_txt.text;
 variables.userMsg = msg_txt.text;
 // Send the data to PHP now
varLoader.load(varSend);
submit_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function(){MovieClip(parent).gotoAndPlay(151)});
 } // Close else condition for error handling
} // Close validate and send function
my php code is the following:
<?php
// Create local PHP variables from the info the user gave in the Flash form
$senderName = $_POST['userName'];
$senderEmail = $_POST['userContact'];
$senderMessage = $_POST['userMsg'];
// Strip slashes on the Local variables
$senderName = stripslashes($senderName);
$senderContact = stripslashes($senderContact);
$senderMessage = stripslashes($senderMessage);
//!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! change this to my email address !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 $to = "put iny me email address";
 // Place sender Email address here
 $from = "$senderContact ";
 $subject = "Contact from your site";
 //Begin HTML Email Message
 $message = <<<EOF
<html>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
Name = $senderName 
Contact = <a href="mailto:$senderContact">$senderEmail</a> 
Message = $senderMessage 
</body>
</html>
EOF;
 //end of message
 $headers = "From: $from\r\n";
 $headers .= "Content-type: text/html\r\n";
 $to = "$to";
 mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
exit();
?>
thank you once again
jay

thank you Ned -
i put in the trace line as you mentioned -
and this is what i received -
returns: undefined
TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter text must be non-null
 at flash.text::TextField/set text()
 at kwangjaekim_fla::wholeform_16/completeHandler()
 at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
 at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
 at flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader::onComplete()
what does this mean exactly?
thank you for the help really

Error: (-36) SrcErr:YES Copying /.journal to (null)

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