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This may make my decision to consolidate a little easier.
I have two external drives, each of which has a bunch of ripped DVD folders on it. At first I was going to just drag and drop all from one drive to the other, but I got an error. So I decided to move them one at a time. But I'm still getting the same error message below. Any idea why? Both drives are formatted as OSX Extended (journaled).
Not the end of the world if I leave them spread over two drives, but I thought it might be convenient to have all on one. Thanks.
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Maybe try CCC, or some other utility that uses an exact copy format algorithm?
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Will the video that the file belongs to play properly or is the file in fact damaged?
Is that the only file that errors out or are all the files on the drive giving you the error msg?
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-36 usually really means that the file can't be read properly - try a new cable? remount the drive?
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They play fine from the source drive by opening DVD Player and navigating to the VIDEO_TS folder. It's only during the move/copy that I get the error message. I haven't tried them all, but randomly selected three or four and they all choked with that message less than a minute in.
I think it's because I ripped them from actual DVDs. Now I just tried converting one in Handbrake. It worked, but I forgot to enable subtitles. It also took about 40 minutes to do. I don't know if I want these movies that badly. Guess I'll be a little more choosey as I proceed.
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Video players in general can deal with a few corrupt bits/bytes. No one will notice if a pixel on a particular frame has a wrong value. People will complain if the video stops playing.
So my guess is that the file is indeed corrupt but the video player ignores it and keeps going.
As a test, you can try to copy (not move) the file to a different folder on the same drive. I am curious if you still get that error.
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see if Handbrake can read and re-save.
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Video players in general can deal with a few corrupt bits/bytes. No one will notice if a pixel on a particular frame has a wrong value. People will complain if the video stops playing...
Yep. Built-in error-correction.
Could be file-level corruption, but drives tend to do one and only one thing reliably: die.
Back up everything now.
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I hope your bitcoin wallet is safe.
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I should have clarified. I was using the DVD Player app/program on the Mini, not a physical DVD Player.
I did try Handbrake on another one and it only converted part of the movie, though it said the total time was 1:40. I obviously need to play around with settings a bit. I tend to be a default kind of guy.
