MacBook Pro won't allow me to copy/unrar .RAR Files (error code -36).

So basically, I've been downloading a lot of .RAR files and its been fine until now. I can't copy/unrar anything. I tried so much I even upgraded from snowy leopard to Lion. I'm pretty angry and I've tried dot_clean /users/manraj/desktop/
I've reformatted my externals and honestly I can't even Time Machine back it up let alone copy it. Genius Bar won't help at all because they never back anything up. If anything they aren't responsible for loosing your files.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Manraj

Is this an external drive, internal drive, both? Did you put a tons of files on your desktop which is bad thing to do with OSX?
General information on I/O error -36 - http://fuzzy.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/ioerror-36/
General information about error -36 - https://discussions.apple.com/message/18221459 - bad disk or format; try using Terminal to copy file.
Error -36 reported when copying files to external drive - http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8467699
Error -36 and filename characteristics - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9629287 - FAT drives may not like all Mac filenames
AD topic on Error -36 trouble shooting - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8586572
If copying to a FAT drive you may be encountering FAT format file size limitations (4GB for FAT32).

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