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tjkampa

28 Jun, 2010 11:27 PM

Hi, I just downloaded and used CCC for the first time. The backup looks good, though I haven't checked closely yet or tried to boot from the drive. The problem I immediately ran into is that I cannot delete anything -- files, folders -- from the drive manually. The drive is mounted and I'm trying to delete from its finder window. I get error code -1407. Do I need to boot from the drive to be able to delete anything from it? (I know the next backup will take care of it since I deleted those items from the source drive.)

Thanks,
Tim

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1. 2 Posted by baltwo on 29 Jun, 2010 07:08 AM

   

   Booting with the clone is the only valid test. I have no idea what's going on, but error -1407 is errFSNotAFolder = -1407, / Expected a folder, got a file / You need to describe how you made the clone, the computer and OS, the target and how hooked up.

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2. 3 Posted by Tim Kampa on 29 Jun, 2010 07:20 PM

   

   Booted from the backup drive and I was able to delete. Rebooted from
   internal drive, opened the backup in finder and was able to delete.
   Maybe the reboot fixed it.

   fyi: I did a complete backup with "Delete items that don't exist on the
   source" on an empty, formatted partition on a OWC drive connected by
   firewire to my iMac OS X 10.6.4.

   Everything is apparently working as expected now.

   Thanks!

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3. Mike Bombich closed this discussion on 29 Jun, 2010 10:23 PM.

4. baltwo re-opened this discussion on 29 Jun, 2010 10:59 PM

5. 4 Posted by baltwo on 29 Jun, 2010 10:59 PM

   

   Thanks for the feedback. Good cloning.

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6. Mike Bombich closed this discussion on 30 Jun, 2010 02:56 AM.

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