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Issue trying to copy a large (72gb) zip file to laptop, auto deletes it after its finished copying

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So I have a 72GB .ZIP file on my external hdd that I am trying to copy to my laptop. It's full of pictures. It will copy just fine, but as soon as its done the file gets deleted off the laptop somehow, automatically. Ive tried 4 times saving to different locations. Its coming from a NTFS drive, but as far as im aware there should be no issue copying FROM a NTFS drive, just not TO the drive.

any help would be much appreciated.
 
redwolf1017 said:
So I have a 72GB .ZIP file on my external hdd that I am trying to copy to my laptop. It's full of pictures. It will copy just fine, but as soon as its done the file gets deleted off the laptop somehow, automatically. Ive tried 4 times saving to different locations. Its coming from a NTFS drive, but as far as im aware there should be no issue copying FROM a NTFS drive, just not TO the drive.

any help would be much appreciated.
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You'll need to provide further details, screen images, etc.

Just a guess... you don't have 72GB free at the destination.
 
RehabMan said:
Just a guess... you don't have 72GB free at the destination.
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72GB free to copy the file and whatever space the unzipped file would occupy ?
 
RehabMan said:
No idea without more details. This has "pilot error" written all over it.
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What more details would you like? Its on a probook on yosemite that is fully updated with everything working. Ive tested the HDD and its fine, and I can copy the file just fine to my windows partition. I'm not trying to be difficult, just not sure what else you need. Ive been using this probook without changing anything just fine for the last 6 months.
 
redwolf1017 said:
What more details would you like? Its on a probook on yosemite that is fully updated with everything working. Ive tested the HDD and its fine, and I can copy the file just fine to my windows partition. I'm not trying to be difficult, just not sure what else you need. Ive been using this probook without changing anything just fine for the last 6 months.
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Show screen images to demonstrate what you're doing.
 
RehabMan said:
Show screen images to demonstrate what you're doing.
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I can get them when I get home. Im literally just dragging and dropping the zip file from finder to my desktop, then it says "copying" with a progress bar that steadily moves for about 15 minutes until completion, then the bar goes away like its done and the file is no where to be found. I can open up diskinfo for my main disk, and watch the available space go down the full 73 gb while it is copying, then when its done the free space goes right back to where it was when I started.
 
a permission issue perhaps?

Have you tried creating a smaller zip file with say just one file inside it on the same HDD and copying that over, it will be much quicker for testing purposes?

I don't know if anything would be displayed in console if you had it open whilst the transfer was taking place?

Try another format from the same drive, plus another zip file, to different locations on your OS X drive, report the results..
 
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The file name of the .zip doesn't perchance begin with a dot? :)
 
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