Snow Leopard Finder Error -36
since getting my mac mini with Snow Leopard, i’ve been having problems (like so many others) with accessing CIFS shares from my OpenSolaris server. Access to mounted shares worked from the terminal and from within applications, but accessing the share via the finder gave the message “The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in filename can’t be read or written. (Error code -36)”.
Turns out, it wasn’t a Snow Leopard problem (or not exclusively a Snow Leopard problem). After various searches and some fiddling, I finally came across Jeremy Beker’s posting, who had the same problem and fixed it (more or less by accident) by upgrading OpenSolaris.
So, upgrading OpenSolaris 2008.11 to 2009.06 is what I also tried and now I am back to having CIFS mounts on Snow Leopard.
Life’s good.
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Stefan
Hi there,
just had a comparable problem while copying some data from my linux machine via an usb stick to my mac book pro. finder reported error -36 when copying the same data back to the usb or trying to empty the bin.
Solution: Delete invisible files in your data !
(optional: deactivate creation of .DS_Store files on network volumes)
This worked for me, maybe its related to other -36 proplems. Have a nice day.