Trouble copying to one of two hard drives
I'm getting the "+cannot copy... file names are too long+" message, and can't determine the problem. Here are the circumstances and clues: Files were copied from an iMac G5 (10.4.11, OS Extended Journaled)to nearly new OWC Elite FW (OS Extended format) and then attempted to copy to one of 2 internal drives of the PPC G5. Got the error, even trying different ports, a FW hub, and the 800 port as well. Then tried copying to the other internal drive, designated the system drive... no problem! But now I get the error again when trying to copy them from this internal system drive to the first (data) drive. One new development just now after trying to save an open document back to this data drive from whence it came " +could not save because of a disk error.+" What do I do next? Thanks in advance.
Just use SuperDuper or Disk Utility Restore to copy over and make a clone, SD does do a better job.
A WD Caviar Blue 640GB is fast and quiet making it a good boot drive and you couldn't tell the difference to 10K Raptor and just $104 - even less I hear on Newegg. The 750GB Caviar is also good.
I keep just the OS and apps on boot drive and home user account is on 2nd drive which also helps and frees up space but more important, so each drive can be accessed concurrently.
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