transfering files to idisk

[glocke12]

Ive been trying to transfer some music files, around 200 mb in size to idisk. The little copy window shows up, and the message ends up saying

"copied: 224 mb of 224 mb (closing file...)-Please Wait"

This will stay on until I power down the imac (forced powered down)..The file never ends up transfered either.

Any ideas what is going on? Are these files too large to transfer?

 

[billmister]

I hope someone answers this questions... It's happening to me as well.. I wonder what's going on...

 

[AustinD]

I second this post. I gave up on using idisk for school after anything larger than a pages doc would not finish copying.

 

[VoodooDaddy]

Are you guys actually giving it time to upload the file??? Alot of times iDisk will make it look like its copied almost immediately, going from 0 to 99% very quickly, even with large files.

 

[AustinD]

The small files I would transfer would be uploaded fairly quickly, but the larger files i left up for a good hour or so just to see if they would do anything else.

 

[uberjason]

What type file is it? I have a similar problem but only with files with a .pkg extension. However if I zip them up (archive) the folder/file hence changing the extension to .zip the file will complete upload to idisk. Hope that helps.

Uberjason

 

[jofallon]

transferring files to iDisk

I've tried transferring files several times and never gotten past the (closing file) step. Doesn't matter how many hours I wait (over 12 in some cases).

 

[jgcaldwell]

See this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/220531/.

I found the following particularly helpful in checking to see if a file transfer is really occurring: "To check your [upload] speed use 'Activity Monitor' application found in your 'Utility's' folder. Launch the application and there will be a 'Network' pane with statistics on your upload speed, which is 'Data sent / sec'."

When I did that I discovered a 651 MB file had only transferred about 486 MB about two hours after I started copying the file to iDisk. I'm still waiting as I write this. I too thought my system had "hung" when I tried to copy the file to iDisk last night and gave up after a couple of hours. According to the Network tab under the Activity Monitor, my upload speed is averaging around 62 KB/sec., extremely slow.

Apple also confirms this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=52383

 

[danny_w]

I gave up on iDisk a long time ago. Absolutely worthless for anything larger than a few K in size IMHO. I really wish that Apple would make it useful.

 

[Senor360]

Toast it!!

I love my Toast Titanium. Use it for all my copying/burning needs.