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I have a NV+ with latest updates and use Mac os 10.6.7 I recently upgraded to 4 2 TB drives from 2 1 TB drives. I now cannot copy my backed up files back on to the box. I get a mac os error "the op...
Your problem is related to how you backed up the files to your Mac.
You have copied the data to the NV+ via AFP - the .AppleDouble folders are system folders used by the AFP service to store resource fork data that is not natively supported on non-Apple systems. You then backed up the data from the NV+ via some protocol other than AFP - this has caused issues with the resource fork data as the .AppleDouble folders have been treated as real folders rather than resource forks, for instance your being unable to "Show Package Contents" (ie this is not a 10.6 issue, but specific to your data)
Fortunately, while inconvenient, losing the resource fork data is rarely a major problem
Solution to your immediate issue is to either:
1. Restore the data to your NAS via another protocol - ideally the same as you used to backup the data. First temporarily disable AFP to allow the .AppleDouble folders to be overwritten. This should restore the resource fork data
2. Remove those .AppleDouble folders from the source, and then restore the data over AFP - losing the resource forks
3. Restore the data via terminal which will report errors re. not being able to overwrite the .AppleDouble folders but will continue to copy the rest of your data (rather than generate the spurious error like finder). This again will cause the resource forks to be lost.
You have copied the data to the NV+ via AFP - the .AppleDouble folders are system folders used by the AFP service to store resource fork data that is not natively supported on non-Apple systems. You then backed up the data from the NV+ via some protocol other than AFP - this has caused issues with the resource fork data as the .AppleDouble folders have been treated as real folders rather than resource forks, for instance your being unable to "Show Package Contents" (ie this is not a 10.6 issue, but specific to your data)
Fortunately, while inconvenient, losing the resource fork data is rarely a major problem
Solution to your immediate issue is to either:
1. Restore the data to your NAS via another protocol - ideally the same as you used to backup the data. First temporarily disable AFP to allow the .AppleDouble folders to be overwritten. This should restore the resource fork data
2. Remove those .AppleDouble folders from the source, and then restore the data over AFP - losing the resource forks
3. Restore the data via terminal which will report errors re. not being able to overwrite the .AppleDouble folders but will continue to copy the rest of your data (rather than generate the spurious error like finder). This again will cause the resource forks to be lost.
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