Files fail to transfer from one Mac to another...how to fix?

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See, here's my problem:
I'm gonna need a laptop for my next school year, and ever since the idea of having a laptop stuck in my brain I've been drooling all over the Combo 12" PowerBook. I can come up with some money, but the rest will have to be raised otherwise. My initial thought; sell the PowerMac (specs in the signature).

There's a problem with this. I have 11GB worth of mp3 files on that Mac, and I want to keep this. (AThat's a bunch of re-importing from CDs and downloading from the net, if you didn't know)

I have room on the iMac, but some files fail to transfer. I believe the names are too long or too complicated or something like that, but it stops the entire process of moving files.

What should I do to keep the remaining files transferring even if one fails? Drag/dropping 2500 files one by one gets rather boring in the end, see? And is there a way to get all the files through? A better alternative to Finder?
I have admin access to both machines, so installing stuff won't be a problem.
 
If you have a registered copy of stuffit then... stuff it :P

Otherwise you can download ColdCompress from VersionTracker which is a graphical front end to making tar.gz archives. What I'm saying is, archive your files into one single file with filename proper and all that, maybe then you can send it over in one shot.
 
You did not say what mechanism you are using to transfer the files... Each has different filename limitations. Some are length. Some relate to characters that are legal on Windows and illegal on the Mac/Unix.

IMHO, the simplest way is to simple turn on "FTP Access" and then FTP them from your Windows machine to your Mac using WS FTP.

That will resolve some of the filename issues that you'd get with Windows file sharing (SMB/Samba)...

There is also less network overhead to FTP, so it should also be FASTER!
 
Tommy, I'm transferring from one Mac to another, using Jaguar's Finder. My Windows machine is, for once, totally innocent.
 
OK, I've compressed the 11GB music library down to 8 .tgz files of a little above 1GB each. None of them have filenames longer than 2 caracters (ab.tgz, cd.tgz, eh.tgz etc. etc.) and it seems to have solved the problem.

Thank you very much, Lycander, you're putting me one step closer to my PowerBook
 
On the contrary, FTP has A LOT of overhead! If you look at the connection dialog in an FTP client, it has to start and stop a transfer session for each and every file. With the amount of MP3s voice has that adds up to a lot of overhead time! NFS/SMB transfers are much faster.
 
o btw u could'ev use bzip2 compression and had better results :)
or..
7-Zip for even better compression results,
but 7-Zip is only for windows... how cheap. :(
 
My God, bz2 are you serious? That might make sense if his next computer was a G5! :P Yeah it's got great compression but that also means longer compress/decompress times.
 
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