When I was copying files from a network drive to my local drive on a Mac I was receiving the error message:<\/p>\n
It appears that there were some illegal characters used in the file names that cause the Finder copy to error out like that and stop the entire copy process completely.<\/p>\n The workaround is opening a Terminal window and entering: You can simply drag and drop the source and destination folders into the terminal window to get the full path in there.<\/p>\n Using -r behind the cp (copy command) is necessary to ensure you go through the complete folder structure recursively.<\/p>\n The trailing slash at the end of the destinationfolder<\/em> is necessary to ensure the folder destinationfolder<\/em> gets created if it does not exist.<\/p>\n The copy process will now copy everything and give you a result of the files that could not be copied so you can change the filename and manually copy these over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was copying files from a network drive to my local drive on a Mac I was receiving the error message: The operation can\u2019t be completed because one or more required items can\u2019t be found. (Error code -43) It appears that there were some illegal characters used in the file names that cause the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe operation can\u2019t be completed because one or more required items can\u2019t be found.
\n(Error code -43)<\/code><\/p>\n
\ncp -r sourcefolder destinationfolder\/<\/code><\/p>\n