Cant copy plex media server folder, error code -36

b Have a post going already but no hits for help yet. Got old 2011 MacBook pro with macOS Sierra 10.12.6 New iMac with Catalina. Did a migration to get all my data from time machine backup. everything good but plex. Can see my media under the tabs (like movies, tv showed) but on the home menu nothing, can’t locate or connect) so did reading and trying to just manually drag over the data from the MacBook following these instructions

However, on the map when ever I try to copy or duplicate the folder in application support I get

The finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “XXXXXXXXXX.bundle” can’t be read or written. (Error code -36)

Any thoughts. This is getting frustrating to get my server going properly on this iMac. I don’t care redoing the library in worst cause but hate to lose all the watching items etc. any help would be greatly appreciated

update, I am able to grab the entire folder from a time machine backup but not the actual hd ops the MacBook pro. here’s the weird part tho, so on my map i checked the server database for any corruption, she’s all good. But when I take the time machine folder cause that’s all i can get and that’s what migration assistant would have used that’s where problems are. currently map NO Errors or corruption, new iMac with transfered plex media server folder from time machine , = corruption. Blew is recent info from terminal when trying to test

sqlite3 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db “PRAGMA integrity_check”

*** in database main ***

On tree page 59 cell 3: Rowid 44469 out of order

On tree page 29648 cell 3: 2nd reference to page 29729

On tree page 29648 cell 109: 2nd reference to page 29728

On tree page 29648 cell 108: 2nd reference to page 29727

On tree page 29648 cell 107: 2nd reference to page 29726

On tree page 29648 cell 106: 2nd reference to page 29725

On tree page 29648 cell 105: 2nd reference to page 29724

On tree page 31959 cell 0: 2nd reference to page 32061

On tree page 31959 cell 69: 2nd reference to page 32057

On tree page 15231 cell 0: 2nd reference to page 32060

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Error: database disk image is malformed

Google found this explanation for the ominous error code -36 for me:

I tried that already with no luck. Still pops up. I dunno what’s going on already. I update this post as well with some more recent info. It only does this error on the mbp, time machine backup cops duplicates just fine but somehow it is corrupt soon as I put it on my iMac. Ran tests to see if database was corrupt on mbp and all was good. My hope is to somehow get that folder off the mbp and hopefully less headaches

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