jgh@aaec.OZ (John G. Haub) (05/22/86)
In InfoMac Digest vol 4: issue72, Richard Kalagher writes, >I have a consistent problem when copying files from a 400K disk to and 800K >disk on a single drive Mac Plus. The problem occurs when trying to >copy all the files at once from a disk containing 50-80 files in several >different folders. I get a message for 2 or 3 of the files saying >"couldn't write file 'foobar'". If I copy the files in smaller >chunks, everything is OK or if I go back and copy the files that couldn't >be written, it works OK. Does anyone know what the "couldn't write" alert >means? In addition, when the alert comes up you have the choice of >"continue" or "cancel". The one time I clicked "cancel", the machine hung >up and I had to reboot. The above occurrs with System 3.1.1 and Finder 5.2. I too have a single drive Mac+ but am using System 3.1 and I had the same problem when backing up my TML Pascal System Library. I was only copying approx 20-30 files though.I tried several times and found that it wasn't always the same set of files that it refused to copy. Whats the caper ?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Haub ACSNET: jgh@aaec.oz C.S.I.R.O. ARPANET: jgh%aaec.oz@seismo.css.gov Division of Mineral Engineering UUCP: {seismo,ukc,prlb2,ubc-vision}! Lucas Heights Research Laboratory munnari!aaec.oz!jgh Sutherland 2232 Sydney N.S.W. Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------