[l008com]

So in the Finder, if you are copying a folder, lets say something that has thousands and thousands of files within subfolders, and just one of the files is unreadable, the whole transfer stops.

Is there a FREE, GUI app I can use to do simple transfers like this, that will simply skip a file that it can't read? I know you can use some CLI tools to do it but I want a traditional GUI type program. I'm testing CarbonCopyCloaner right now to see how it deals with bad blocks but I suspect it's not going to behave like I want it to.

[l008com]

Actually it turns out CarbonCopyCloaner does continue copying when it fails on reading a file. Thats good but it still has a huge timeout before it moves on. Is that timeout something in hardware on the disk, or is that something that could be shortened in software? Realistically, a few seconds is all you need. If you can't read the block, move on. No need to keep trying for a mintue or two.

[Maflynn]

Wouldn't that be kind of dangerous. It keeps on copying when not all of what you want copied is copied.

Take a container data object, if only a portion of that was copied, then that would be rendered useless, the same goes for various other files/applications.

Perhaps if it generated a log file that you could review then determine if its ok, that would make it a bit safer.

[l008com]

But we're talking about disks with bad blocks, so we're talking about partial data vs no data at all.