[ale] Another Mac headache.

[Jim Kinney]

age is no excuse for not learning! The cheat sheet here
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/vimcheat.html covers the basics. If you
run vimtutor command, it opens a tutorial that is very good.

"File not found" errors on burn are usually because a file that was
selected is no longer available when the write process access it. The
work-around is to NEVER burn directly to disk. ALWAYS make an iso file
first and then burn that to disk. That way you won't waste a disk.

Files that go missing are often some temp file that was removed by an
automatic process. As the Mac filesystem is weird it may be easiest to
select individual files for archival manually by copying them to a backup
folder.

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

> Trying to burn backups onto archival (gold) DVD.
> Created expensive coaster with error 43, which essentially means "file not
> found."  Notice it doesn't say WHICH godforsaken file.
> My first thought is a broken link, but I can't find any links in the
> directories being backed up.
>
> Then I thought to check the system log.  Found it in /private, but the
> only way I could figure out to read the contents is with VIM.
> That's nice, only I don't know VIM or its parent VI, and at my age I have
> no desire to learn.  So I held my finger down and let the file scroll to
> the
> end -- from May 6 to June 3 is a lot of lines!
>
> The system logged the failure to burn with error 4294967253, but a google
> search turned up nothing remotely useful.
>
> Does anyone have any clue how I might be able to find the offending
> file/link/whatever?
>
> Sean
>
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consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
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