OSX then stops the copying or moving! In the middle of the work, with a cryptic error message in the form of some negative number! It doesn’t tell where it stopped, and there is no way to “continue” that I have discovered.īut there is an easy solution: instead of copy or move – synchronize! I think it often involves an external disk. It could be moving the iTunes library media files to an external disk (see my old blog 003 or new at Ars Technica), or some other need.Īfter some years of sitting where they are, Mac OSX might find at least one of the files not possible to move. Some times I need to move large amounts of files or a single very large directory around. OSX aborting session when stumbling on a single file Please comment if you find any inaccuracies or errors I write after some time, and what I write may not be completely correct. I do try to be accurate in my descriptions, but I cannot guarantee that it will work for you.There is no money involved with this, I just happen to have learned something about them that I think is ok to write about This “Mac OS X”, “OSX”, “OS X” or soon to be “macOS” again blog note – will mention concrete products and manufacturers.Started 5Jan2013, updated 18Feb2023 ( XFLASH from Terminal). This page is in group Technology. 9 Time Machine disk with Big Sur and the older macOS.8 Running code in a Terminal window and $PATH.7.0.1 Time Machine backs up USB-drives, even individual directories.7 Mac Mini 2018: maxing out the SSD drive?.

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