[phat32]

Thanks for the response. I had already gone ahead and restarted the MBP but was seeing the same problem. I noticed the lock symbol stating to allow or not allow copying without authorization this time. I had left it locked last time thinking I only needed to authenticate once at the beginning of the process. This time I unlocked it and while I still had to authenticate to make that change, once it was done the copy process fired up immediately upon hitting go. Flashed right through the preparing to copy stage and has already copied 10% of the drive so far.

Perhaps I missed the explanation in the manual about how that lock/authorization requirement applies to the copying process but if it's not in there I'd like to request it be better explained in the manual or even the options menu in the application. Thanks again for your help.