Suddenly having troubles transferring data to my external HD
About a month ago I bought a G-Tech 500 GB G Drive. It is formatted for a mac and has worked fine until yesterday. At first it would not stay mounted. I would have it connected and after a few min would disapear off the desktop and I would get a message saying it was improperlly removed and whatnot. Also when that was going on there would be trash in the trash bin whenever I connected it and it would not let me empty it. I then unplugged my power cord and turned it off for a good 20 min. Since then I haven't gotten those issuses again.
At that point I was able to do stuff such as listen to music on iTunes, as I have ALL of my music on the external drive. However when I would try to move anything to the drive I would get one of a few errors. The first being along the lines of " file cant be transferred because the file name is too long". Another one I can remember was "cant be transferred because one or more of these files cant be read/written - error 36". I was using the firewire hookup so I tried the USB and got the same results.
The only thing I did yesterday before all this was do a software update, since I hadn't in a little while, and I repaired permissions on my internal drive. I also fiddled with the security settings a little. Im thinking something I did there messed everything up?
Im lost here I feel like I've tried everything. Losing all the files on that drive and reformating it isnt an option here since i would lose everything and pretty much have no use for the drive anymore.
Any Ideas?
Thanks in advance,
-Matt
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