Any log of finder errors

[Dan Shoop]

At 7:51 AM -0600 3/16/07, Scott Ribe wrote:
>Had my PB attached in target disk mode to my tower, copying a batch of
>files. Finder reported "error -36 while reading or writing a file". Now, in
>my experience, an IO error from a disk is always followed by disk failure,
>so my instinct is to immediately replace the drive. But the Finder error
>doesn't tell me which one. And I've opened console, nothing in console.log
>or system.log, and I've looked for other appropriate logs and didn't find
>anything.
>
>Is there a log somewhere that would contain more information about the
>error?

Not that I'm aware.

Moreover your assessment of the error is probably wrong, it's merely 
un unexpected IO Error. It could be from a variety of things. I'd 
fsck the disk first as volume corruption is more likely than drive 
failure.
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-dhan

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