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Problem: I have an SD flash card (8 GB Kingston) and a MacBook Pro 13" (Late 2011 model). I also use external card reader time to time. This problem persisted on all the conditions. The error message was stating: The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “” can’t be read or written. (Error code -36) This was happening while copying Photos from my camera (cr2 files). It worked, however, in case of copying files up to 200 MB in total size of batch. It dropped this error message and did stop to copy files upon selecting of lots of RAW files. E.g. all of them and attempting to copy them from a flash drive. Solution: Problem occurred with building miniatures of the CR2 files. Those files are quite heavy photos (25+ MB) and building miniature did take some time. While building those miniatures on both MAC and SD card finder windows it did die. For me it was enough to change the view from icons to list. E.g.: This did solve it for me. Other solution (Suspect...

There are many programs in the market that can handle it for you. But you can do it with default Mac OS X tools. Those steps must be made in terminal. You need to know what you are doing and have root password to your system. Here is your step by step guide to do it: 1. Convert your image. You need to change the image type from .iso to .img that dd util supports. To do this type a command like this: hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o /path/to/destination/file.img /path/to/source/file.iso You must see output similar to this: Reading Image File Name Here (Apple_UDF : 0)…... [ truncated ] ............................. Elapsed Time: 4m 57.725s Speed: 20.9Mbytes/sec Savings: 0.0% created: /path/to/image/file.img.dmg 2. Remove the .dmg extension. mv /path/to/image/file.img.dmg /path/to/image/file.img 3. Get your flash drive device name. You can do it in various ways. one that is using standard utils here: diskutil list This will list all your disks mounted...

I've wanted more from my PI, besides Time Machine functions, established in my earlier articles. So I've decided to make it a SAMBA server. I have a Mac and a Windows PC. And several iPads/iPhones. So the decision was obvious. To access my storage content I'd need a samba share. Because it is recognized by all this tech. iPad has Oplayer, to watch movies without conversion... GoodReader for docs. One word - SAMBA share. SO this article will be about adding a samba share to your Raspberry Pi. Note I have a Time Machine already set up. But it won't matter much. I only have another drive index letters and so on. I'll try to cover this as much as possible. And macs somewhat easily read NTFS filesystems. So we will be mounting NTFS filesystem volume to a Raspberry Pi with SAMBA network sharing. Let's get on to it. To set up a Raspbery Pi home network Samba server you will need to: - Connect an external drive (USB HDD in my case). - Update fstab for auto-mount...

Today I'll try to cover my migration experience. I have bought myself an OCZ Technology 128GB Vertex 4 SSD from Amazon. And I also have an external 1 Tb HDD. I'm using it for migration purposes as a backup Time Mashine. So to migrate yourself without reinstalling operating system and so on you need: 1. Compact your data. Usually HDD's, installed in Mac's, are much bigger then SSD's you buying. And to tell you the truth, you probably do not need a 512 Gigabytes SSD at all. Most of data are accessed rarely and do not require speedy storage. So COMPACT them. Move to an external HDD and/or delete. Time to cleanup one word. There are also several places that can be easily deleted without much troubles. They are iTunes backup caches for your iOS devices, like iPhones and iPads. they are usually sotred on your user library path. You can delete them without sorry from either: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup  folder or in your iTunes => Preferen...