[comp.sys.apple] What is error804E?

TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (01/22/88)

While using the Finder to copy a directory containing a lot (sorry ,
have forgotten how many is a lot) of medium sized files (at least a
couple of text pages each) from a 3.5 to a hard drive I received the
error message:  "System Error!  Can't Complete the Operation.  #804E" I
clicked on the Cancel box and the system continued to grind away and
actually seemed to complete the copy.  Not trusting it, I deleted what
purported to have been copied and repeated the operation with the file
copy function in System.utils.  That worked fine, no error message.  Any
idea what caused it?  (I have /RAM5 fixed size, so that's not the
problem.)  Its not the total number of files or their total size,
because I've done other copies with about the same number of files or
same total number of blocks, but probably not something that has both
large.

TMPLee@Dockmaster.arpa