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2. Cannot read directory “/Volumes/Seagate … etc” (= NTFS Source)
EINVAL: Invalid argument [readdir]


My guess is that Samba cannot handle the "…" character. Remove it and see if it works then.


The ellipsis character was my way of indicating that the full path/file name was truncated - it ...

Mmm - well, Finder can read the USB NTFS drive and if I open two finder windows I can drag files from NTFS to an Apple drive. And Commander One and Double Commander will allow me to copy between USB source NTFS and USB target Apple, open in different panels.

I do have multiple backups with ...

FFS Version 13.7 ARM64 06/23/2024
Mac Version is Sequoia

I am moving from Windows to Mac. I need to convert my backups from NTFS to Mac (not entirely convinced about exFAT). As part of this process I have a new Mac-formatted backup disk (Target) but am having problems reading the USB attached ...

Hello Zentu,

I have a number of backup disks, preferring to spread my backup risk to multiple smaller disks rather than all to one big disk. Then ... I have separate tasks for, say, Documents, Images, Music etc. I may choose to run Images only to different disks or I may choose to run a group of ...

Colour coding does make things more clear but I would like an easier way to group individual profiles into a container then be able to run the whole container - and, of course, still be able to run just one profile in the container (sometimes I back up the whole group and sometimes, when I know I ...

Zenju: I'll consider the colour coding - that will certainly make things easier to identify like profiles rather than scrolling a list of text. Thank you.

xCSx... No. I tried to indicate in the last paragraph of my post that although I can select multiple profiles, I end up with very many similarly named profiles / filenames and it is easy to select the wrong combination. Also, the list can get very long whereas the number of groups can be quite short ...

Is it possible to have a group that contains a number of different backup profiles?

Explanation: I wish to backup a range of folders to a common location. For example - Documents, Pictures, Videos - but those folders are on two different disks in the same computer (c: and d:). I'd like to create a ...