Secondary streams (e.g. file comments) couldn't be transferred to target

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Robert2
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Secondary streams (e.g. file comments) couldn't be transferred to target

Post by Robert2 »

Hi Nikos,
I used “Edit | Copy To…” to copy a folder to another drive. Most of the files and sub-folders got copied without any problem, but a few files raised an exception with the message “Secondary streams (e.g. file comments) couldn't be transferred to target Ignore this problem?”
I could not make head or tail of this. These files were ordinary standard txt files. I ignored the problem and they got copied correctly.
What gives?
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Re: Secondary streams (e.g. file comments) couldn't be transferred to target

Post by nikos »

the source folder was NTFS and target FAT32, which doesn't support streams
streams come from comments or downloading. If you didn't add comments then you can ignore the error (there's an advanced option to silence it)