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Well in the future I will look into inodes things for my own purposes (I was born on DOS 3.3 and always preferred command line over windows, and now that I use OSX I will ultimately want to learn all the unix type things) But I found a quirky resolution (not solution) to my windows to mac...

I've now since tried 2 more things. I took a USB flash drive and formatted as FAT32, put two mp3 files from windows that contain fancy accented A's and E's, they don't show up when I plug the drive into Lion. Same when I re-format the drive as FAT16. So that pretty much exhausts all my...

Well then how are you clicking on folders in the source drive - I thought you need Finder to get into the drive? Maybe if there's another way to "open" a drive and access its contents in the GUI I could circumvent the Finder issue.

Here's a sample of the terminal results I have when trying to copy from a USB dock mounted external NTFS folder. Lion:Fable Druxar$ ls Fable - Le temple de la lumière.mp3 Fable - Les bois de gibet.mp3 Fable - Un point à l'horizon.mp3 Lion:Fable Druxar$ cp "Fable - Un...

I'm trying to copy files from those 2 types of drives by using USB docks, mounting them on mac, then either copying and pasting to mac internal drive by dragging and dropping in finder, choosing copy and then paste in the finder menu bar, or by going into terminal and using a recursive cp...

I have been a windows user for 20 years and had enough, mostly due to Vista since 2007 and I just spontaneously went and bought a 13.3" MacbookPro 3 weeks ago, which came with Lion. So far I'm having WORSE problems than those I left behind. For one thing, just trying to migrate my files from...