Slow copying using Finder

I am trying to copy some files from my 2.8Ghz iMac running Mac OSX 10.5.8 to various external disks.
Both disks are FAT32 (Windows) formatted devices. One is an IOmega external USB and one is a Kingston USB data stick.
However, the copying is taking absolutely ages. Just over 1GB (2 files) is taking around 20 minutes.
I've tried using the USB ports on the back of the iMac and the one on the keyboard. The results are pretty much the same on each port.
Is this normal kind of transfer rates between a Mac and a FAT32 formatted device or is there something I can do to improve it?
Thanks
Matthew
Message was edited by: MPlb

MPlb wrote:
I am trying to copy some files from my 2.8Ghz iMac running Mac OSX 10.5.8 to various external disks.
Both disks are FAT32 (Windows) formatted devices. One is an IOmega external USB and one is a Kingston USB data stick.
However, the copying is taking absolutely ages. Just over 1GB (2 files) is taking around 20 minutes.
I've tried using the USB ports on the back of the iMac and the one on the keyboard. The results are pretty much the same on each port.
Is this normal kind of transfer rates between a Mac and a FAT32 formatted device or is there something I can do to improve it?
Do those external devices support USB 2.0 or only USB 1.1? There is a significant difference in transfer speed between the two protocols.

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1. This is a comment on what you should—and should not—do to protect yourself from malicious software ("malware") that circulates on the Internet and gets onto a computer as an unintended consequence of the user's actions. It does not apply to software, such as keystroke loggers, that may be installed deliberately by an intruder who has hands-on access to the computer, or who has been able to log in to it remotely. That threat is in a different category, and there's no easy way to defend against it.
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OS X now implements three layers of built-in protection specifically against malware, not counting runtime protections such as execute disable, sandboxing, system library randomization, and address space layout randomization that may also guard against other kinds of exploits.
2. All versions of OS X since 10.6.7 have been able to detect known Mac malware in downloaded files, and to block insecure web plugins. This feature is transparent to the user. Internally Apple calls it "XProtect."
The malware recognition database used by XProtect is automatically updated; however, you shouldn't rely on it, because the attackers are always at least a day ahead of the defenders.
The following caveats apply to XProtect:
It can be bypassed by some third-party networking software, such as BitTorrent clients and Java applets.
It only applies to software downloaded from the network. Software installed from a CD or other media is not checked.
As new versions of OS X are released, it's not clear whether Apple will indefinitely continue to maintain the XProtect database of older versions such as 10.6. The security of obsolete system versions may eventually be degraded. Security updates to the code of obsolete systems will stop being released at some point, and that may leave them open to other kinds of attack besides malware.
   3. Starting with OS X 10.7.5, there has been a second layer of built-in malware protection, designated "Gatekeeper" by Apple. By default, applications and Installer packages downloaded from the network will only run if they're digitally signed by a developer with a certificate issued by Apple. Software certified in this way hasn't necessarily been tested by Apple, but you can be reasonably sure that it hasn't been modified by anyone other than the developer. His identity is known to Apple, so he could be held legally responsible if he distributed malware. That may not mean much if the developer lives in a country with a weak legal system (see below.)
Gatekeeper doesn't depend on a database of known malware. It has, however, the same limitations as XProtect, and in addition the following:
It can easily be disabled or overridden by the user.
A malware attacker could get control of a code-signing certificate under false pretenses, or could simply ignore the consequences of distributing codesigned malware.
An App Store developer could find a way to bypass Apple's oversight, or the oversight could fail due to human error.
Apple has so far failed to revoke the codesigning certificates of some known abusers, thereby diluting the value of Gatekeeper and the Developer ID program. These failures don't involve App Store products, however.
   For the reasons given, App Store products, and—to a lesser extent—other applications recognized by Gatekeeper as signed, are safer than others, but they can't be considered absolutely safe. "Sandboxed" applications may prompt for access to private data, such as your contacts, or for access to the network. Think before granting that access. Sandbox security is based on user input. Never click through any request for authorization without thinking.
4. Starting with OS X 10.8.3, a third layer of protection has been added: a "Malware Removal Tool" (MRT). MRT runs automatically in the background when you update the OS. It checks for, and removes, malware that may have evaded the other protections via a Java exploit (see below.) MRT also runs when you install or update the Apple-supplied Java runtime (but not the Oracle runtime.) Like XProtect, MRT is effective against known threats, but not against unknown ones. It notifies you if it finds malware, but otherwise there's no user interface to MRT.
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The best defense is always going to be your own intelligence. With the possible exception of Java exploits, all known malware circulating on the Internet that affects a fully-updated installation of OS X 10.6 or later takes the form of so-called "Trojan horses," which can only have an effect if the victim is duped into running them. The threat therefore amounts to a battle of wits between you and the scam artists. If you're smarter than they think you are, you'll win. That means, in practice, that you always stay within a safe harbor of computing practices. How do you know when you're leaving the safe harbor? Below are some warning signs of danger.
Software from an untrustworthy source
Software of any kind is distributed via BitTorrent. or Usenet, or on a website that also distributes pirated music or movies.
Software with a corporate brand, such as Adobe Flash Player, doesn't come directly from the developer’s website. Do not trust an alert from any website to update Flash, your browser, or anything else.
Rogue websites such as Softonic and CNET Download distribute free applications that have been packaged in a superfluous "installer."
The software is advertised by means of spam or intrusive web ads. Any ad, on any site, that includes a direct link to a download should be ignored.
Software that is plainly illegal or does something illegal
High-priced commercial software such as Photoshop is "cracked" or "free."
An application helps you to infringe copyright, for instance by circumventing the copy protection on commercial software, or saving streamed media for reuse without permission.
Conditional or unsolicited offers from strangers
A telephone caller or a web page tells you that you have a “virus” and offers to help you remove it. (Some reputable websites did legitimately warn visitors who were infected with the "DNSChanger" malware. That exception to this rule no longer applies.)
A web site offers free content such as video or music, but to use it you must install a “codec,” “plug-in,” "player," "downloader," "extractor," or “certificate” that comes from that same site, or an unknown one.
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Fortunately, client-side Java on the Web is obsolete and mostly extinct. Only a few outmoded sites still use it. Try to hasten the process of extinction by avoiding those sites, if you have a choice. Forget about playing games or other non-essential uses of Java.
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I think those aren't simple files, though...
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
and some others may hold some of them.
I think most of the problem lies in the files/folders at Root called Automount, Network, and Servers.
If you wish to try to eradicate them with sudu Terminal commands I can gelp.
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E book bought from Waterstones is unreasonably slow in use can you help, please?
I purchased a copy of “The Complete English Poems” by John Donne as an e-book, I downloaded the e-book successfully, as well as the new Digital Editions software and transferred the e-book to my Sony Reader. However when I try to use the book it is slow opening up and very slow moving between sections, or navigating between the poem and the notes on the poems, typically between three and five minutes. In practice this means that if I wish to consult a note on a poem it can take five minutes to move from the poem to the note then another five minutes to navigate back, giving a time of ten minutes to consult a note. This is not really feasible.
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Your year and model IMac can take a total of 6 GBs of RAM.
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The 6 GB RAM kit can be found here.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/iMac/Intel_Core_2_Duo_PC2-6400
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http://macpaw.com/support/cleanmymac-classic/knowledgebase/how-to-uninstall-clea nmymac-classic
http://macpaw.com/support/cleanmymac/knowledgebase/how-to-uninstall-cleanmymac-2
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https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95319?hl=en
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375081?hl=en
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I have not copied the central cache to the external drive. So I assume that when using Find to search the external drive it is looking at the caches in each folder on that drive.

Very slow copy and rm speeds

I've seen other postings about slow copy processes upon upgrading to Snow Leopard. However, none of the replies seem to address the situations I am experiencing. First, copy times between my MacBook Pro (2 Ghz, 2GB, 100GBHD, 15" - the first MBP introduced), and external USB2 Lacie HD have become very slow (1 hour for 4-6 files totalling ~4GB). Curiously, sometimes the same size transfer occurs in 3-4 minutes. I recently upgraded to SL from Tiger, and the Tiger times were in the 3-4 minute envelop. The external HD is a 1TB Poulton Lacie, with over half the disc free. My MBP HD has about 20GB free, and only the Finder, mail, occaisionally xcode, and occaisionally a browser, (either Safari or Firefox) are running during the transfer. The same sometimes occurs with only the Finder and the activity monitor running. The USB is connected directly to the MBP. So, in summary, the ext HD is directly connected, half empty, there is room on the internal HD, and the memory is not particularly burdened with other processes. The activity monitor slows less than half the CPU capability being used.
Secondly, another problem occurs using the unix secure erase, rm -Pr. It is very slow since upgrading to SL from Tiger. The finder's secure erase is too slow to use.
Any thoughts about why on either? Right now, I'm wishing that I stayed with Tiger. Thanks.

I suggest looking at your logs in Console.app to see if anything unusual is happening during the long file copies.
The SMART status isn't that useful. If it says the drive is dead, the drive it dead. If it says the drive is "verified", the drive could still be dead. A good indicator of this is if file copies take an hour instead of 3 minutes.
Is this the original hard drive in that machine? If so, I'm surprised it has made it this long. Notebook hard drives typically start failing at three years of age. You might not notice it until you do a major reoriganization of your files' organization on the disk - such as installing a new operating system.
I compared Finder's secure erase with rm and they seem more or less equivalent.
I think your internal hard drive is just failing. That's all.

Use Find-Replace to paste/wrap Element name?

Hi:
For FrameMaker 7.2, structured.
I'm a longtime *unstructured* FrameMaker who is performing cleanup on some structured FrameMaker documents created by my customer.
One of my tasks is to find all Index markers and applying the IndexMarker element (square-cornered) tag to the markers.
I'm currently using the tedious and slow technique of using Find to locate and select the Index tag, then in the Element catalog clicking "IndexMarker" followed by "Wrap".
I've poked around hoping I could find Copy Special / Paste Special choices that would speed this mousing-intensive chore up, but haven't found any such choices that work.
So -- is there some "intelligent" way to Find / Replace my way through this problem? Even if I manually have to click Replace at every instance, it's faster than what I'm doing...
Cheers & thanks,
Riley

Riley,
As much as I appreciate the unsolicited endorsements, I have to clarify that FrameSLT cannot help you with this task. It can do lots of things associated with structural management, but all of its current capabilities are dependent upon existing structure. More specifically, it requires existing structure to find the items for which it intends to manage, which your current markers do not have. So, while it can do things like element wrapping, it wouldn't be able to find the unstructured markers in order to wrap them.
This would be a reasonably simple task for a custom API client or FrameScript script. If you have zillions of these to do, it might be worth your while to explore that option. If not, Gary's suggestion might be your best bet.
Russ
(Owner, West Street Consulting)

How can I resolve slow browsing in finder when connected to a share point on a linux box?

Hi,
I am having huge difficulties when browsing a share point that is on a Linux box. I am connecting to it with a Macbook Pro running Lion 10.7.5.
Initially there was an SMB share point setup on the server which was extremely slow to browse. I then setup an AFP sharepoint thinking that would help with the issue but it hasn't made a difference at all. The issue is that files take forever to load when browsing using Finder. Moving between folders on the sharepoint takes extremely long since files are slow to load.
There are very few options available on line to help with this and so far none of them have worked. I think the problem is with Finder and the way it indexes the files but I could be wrong.
Please help!
Nabeel

Hey Brenda, this isn't 'Safari' I believe this is your Modem/Router to solve this issue please look on the bottom/side of your internet box, and find the codes. But I also believe, when starting up your modem/ Internet box when you first actually received it you had to sign up, this is the only way in order for you to receive this message. Please contact your Internet providers.
Try Uninstalling Safari!
Have you tried to press cancel to see if that helps?
See if this happens on any other browser
CorrellBest

Very Slow Copy Operation on HP Pavilion 15 p001tx

Hi everyone. I recently bought the HP Pavilion 15 p001tx. Here are the Specifications if you need them
Intel Core i5 4210U 1.7Ghz ,Turbo Boost to 2.4GHz
4 GB DDR3 RAM
1 TB HDD
Nvidia Geforce 830M 2GB DDR3
My problem is with extremely slow copying/moving operation on USB drives. I mean I could get only 5-15 Mbps while copying/moving.
I am aware that I am using a USB 3.0 Flash Drive connected to the USB 3.0 slot but a constant 5-15 Mbps is ridiculus. I have a friend who has the same model and he could get 35-40Mbps of transfer speed.
I ran the HP utility and installed the latest device drivers for Windows 8.1. I have not run into problems while copying / moving files within the harddrive as it runs at a decent 45 Mbps , in fact here is the CrystalDisk Mark benchmark of my HDD:
* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]
Sequential Read : 92.794 MB/s
Sequential Write : 89.059 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 27.382 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 34.493 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.355 MB/s [ 86.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.050 MB/s [ 256.3 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.975 MB/s [ 237.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.819 MB/s [ 199.9 IOPS]
Test : 1000 MB [C: 14.2% (64.9/455.6 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2014/09/17 20:37:37
OS : Windows 8.1 [6.3 Build 9600] (x64)
Now this is the benchmark for a USB
* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]
Sequential Read : 15.174 MB/s
Sequential Write : 7.067 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 15.702 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 0.654 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 4.079 MB/s [ 995.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.006 MB/s [ 1.4 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 4.491 MB/s [ 1096.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.005 MB/s [ 1.3 IOPS]
Test : 1000 MB [H: 0.0% (0.0/3855.0 MB)] (x5)
Date : 2014/09/17 21:54:50
OS : Windows 8.1 [6.3 Build 9600] (x64)
Please help me with this guys... I need to transfer lots of data to my external HDD.
I also have another problem which is the Bluetooth doesnt discover any devices around ,neither does any other device detect it. It just keeps saying searching forever.

I also have same problem which is the Bluetooth doesnt discover any devices around ,neither does any other device detect it. It just keeps saying searching forever.connected then within seconds it shows not connected

Moving TM backups using Finder in Snow Leopard

It has been suggested by Apple to some users that in Snow Leopard the folder backups.backupdb containing all TM backups can be copied from one hard drive to another if one wants to migrate TM backups to a new drive. It is also suggested in this kb article
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2986
that one can just move this folder around on a single drive if necessary.
I've tested this extensively and and found this advice to be mostly false. Copying the backups.backupdb folder using Finder does work technically but it completely destroys all hard link structure. this means that one should expect the total space taken by the backups to increase by a large factor. for example, if you are backing up 100GB of data and have about 10 TM backups, after you copy the backups.backupdb folder to a new location (on the same drive or on a different drive) it will occupy 1TB of space there. if you don't have enough space the copy process will fail.
Note that due to the use of hard links the original backups will occupy much less space on the drive, usually, less than 150GB in the above example.
This restriction makes the process completely unfeasible for all but the smallest backups with very few incremental backups existing.
the only situation where the hard link structure is preserved is if you trash the backups.backupdb folder and then use the "Put back" feature to get it out of trash.
Therefore I would still recommend never to move this folder (or anything in it) using Finder. Migrating TM backups to a new drive should still be done using a cloning tool like Superduper or using the restore tab in Disk Utility.
Message was edited by: V.K.

I was surprised to note that it took nearly the same amount of time as the Restore tab of Disk Utility (which I'd expected to be faster). So the only advantage I can see, even if it worked reliably, would be the ability to get the backups off a partition that has other data on it. Guess I'll have to change the FAQ yet again.
Mumble, grumble.
I still haven't heard back from them about the other issue where they changed the FAQ, about no full backup after a full restore, where you and I also get different results. Maybe I'll press the issue and add this one.
I'm also working one that you may have seen, where a +Verify Disk+ on the boot drive somehow interferes with TM's ability to find changes from the +Event Log,+ until you do a Restart. Two or three other folks have seen it, too. That one I reported to Apple Care last Wednesday; they said I'd hear something in 24-48 hours . . .

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