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I need to copy several Gb from an external HD to my moan hd and some files will cause errors. If I do this with the finder, it will stop on the first error.

Is there a way to copy everything no matter the errors? Something like copy of teracopy in Windows?

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Well, if an error occurs, you probably don't want to copy that file. Or do you just want to skip the ones where an error occurs? And, actually the better question would be: Why do you get those errors? What errors are these, even? – slhck♦ Aug 7 '12 at 11:19
I want to copy all other files, and handle the errors, whatever they are later. – urimoai Aug 7 '12 at 11:37
Which errors are you getting specifically? – slhck♦ Aug 7 '12 at 11:42

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In terminal, type in 

cp -Rp /Volumes/<source-volume>/<source-user>/<source-folder>/ /Volumes/<destination-volume>/<destination-folder>/

Destination folder should be a new folder you are creating.

If you get info on the new folder after running this you can see the folder size increase.

Example 

cp -Rp /Volumes/Macintosh HD/User/Bob/Desktop/stufftocopy/ /Volumes/external/newfolder

It will copy and display errors for anything it can't copy but without stopping.

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