Ok, I have this crappy Belkin router that I just want to blow into tiny
pieces. Very often it will cause network sockets to stall. If you are
transferring files and it decides it doesn't want to let you continue,
this is a real mess, as the Finder will not quit until the socket is
closed. So I get to restart the computer.

But that's not what I'm asking about. I'm getting a better router soon,
but in the meantime I'm using FTP to transfer files from machine to
machine. That way if the connection stalls, it doesn't bring the whole
machine down. It does still stall, however.

I'm moving my music collection from one machine to another -- a
painstaking task since any large transfer is guaranteed to stall. So I
do it one artist at a time.

Here's the really weird thing: Certain files simply refuse to be
transferred. There seems to be no particular rhyme or reason to this.
It's simply that some files will transfer about halfway and then stall
-- EVERY TIME I TRY TO MOVE THEM. What's up with that? There doesn't
seem to be anything peculiar or different about the files that do this.
Often, after repeated attempts, they suddenly work, but there are a few
that I haven't been able to move at any time in the last three days.

Both machines are running 10.3.5, and the files being transferred are
all mp3s. Any notion as to what's going on here?

This doesn't help you but I am curious, when you say you are using ftp,
are you in Unix (terminal) at the time? Or are you using the Fetch
program (or similar) in GUI mode?
GW


Steven Daedelus wrote:
> I'm using FTP to transfer files from machine to
> machine.
> I'm moving my music collection from one machine to another
> Certain files simply refuse to be
> transferred. There seems to be no particular rhyme or reason to this.
> It's simply that some files will transfer about halfway and then stall
> -- EVERY TIME I TRY TO MOVE THEM. What's up with that?
> Both machines are running 10.3.5, and the files being transferred are
> all mp3s. Any notion as to what's going on here?

Doesn't matter. Same thing happens in either one.

In article <vOVYc.16728$Bt5.13191@twister.socal.rr.com>,
Geoff Welsh <geoffdubya@some.rr.com> wrote:

> This doesn't help you but I am curious, when you say you are using ftp,
> are you in Unix (terminal) at the time? Or are you using the Fetch
> program (or similar) in GUI mode?
> GW
>
>
> Steven Daedelus wrote:
> > I'm using FTP to transfer files from machine to
> > machine.
> > I'm moving my music collection from one machine to another
> > Certain files simply refuse to be
> > transferred. There seems to be no particular rhyme or reason to this.
> > It's simply that some files will transfer about halfway and then stall
> > -- EVERY TIME I TRY TO MOVE THEM. What's up with that?
> > Both machines are running 10.3.5, and the files being transferred are
> > all mp3s. Any notion as to what's going on here?